Extracted From:
  A LAW DICTIONARY ..., SIXTH EDITION, 1856
  by John Bouvier
  CHILDS & PETERSON, PHILADELPHIA

PER QUOD, pleading. By which; whereby. 
   When the plaintiff sues for an injury to his relative rights, as for beating
his wife, his child,, or his servant, it is usual to lay the injury with a per
quod. In such case, after complaining of the injury, say to the wife, the
declaration proceeds, "insomuch that the said E F, (the wife,) by means of the
premises, then and there became and was sick, sore, lame, and disordered, and so
remained and continued for a long space of time, to wit, hitherto, whereby he,
the said A B, (the plaintiff,) lost", &c....

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