Pro Salute Animae
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
For the good of his soul. All prosecutions in the ecclesiastical courts are pro salute animae; hence it will not be a temporal damage founding an action for slander that the words spoken put any one in danger of such a suit.
3 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 309n, 437; 4 Steph. Comm. 207.