trespass per quod consortium amisit

trespass per quod consortium amisit
An action of trespass which lay where the defendant had assaulted or ill-used the wife whereby the plaintiff husband was deprived of her society. See 2 Bl Comm 140.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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