SLAVERY. The atatus or condition of a slave.
2. Slavery, being a peraonal status, does, aa a general rule, accompany the individual, like minority or incapacity, wherever he may go, so long as his domicil remolds un changed ; and the domicil of the slave is that of his master. How far and under what circumstances the right of the master or the status of the slave is affected by the escape of the latter, or the reirioval of the master and slave into, or their transit through, a state where slavery does not exist, is a subject as to which there is a want of entire agreement among the various deci .iiNas. The following are the principal au thorities : 18 Pick. Maas. 193 ; 3 Mete. Mass 72 ; 12 Conn. 38 ; 2 Serg. & R. Penn. 305 ; 7 id. 378 ; 6 Binn. Penn. 213 ; 1 P. A. Browne, Penn. 113 ; 1 Watts, Penn. 155 ; 4 Yeates, Penn. 204 ; Add. Penn. 284 ; 5 Ill. 461; 3 Am. Jur. 407 ; 2 A. K. Marsh. Ky. 467 ; 3
T. B. Monr. Ky. 104; 1 Bibb, Ky. 423 ; 5 B. Monr. Ky. 173 ; 7 id. 635 ; 8 id. 545 ; 9 id. 565 ; 1 Mo. 472; 2 id. 19. 37 ; 3 id. 194, 400; 4 id. 350, 592 ; 14 Mart. La. 401 ; 1 La. Ann. 329 ; 7 id. 170; 1 Leigh, Va. 172 ; 1 Gilm. Va. 143 ; 4 Harr. & .M'H. Md. 322, 418. See, also, deciaions in federal courts, in 16 Pet. 610 ; 5 How. 229 ; 10 id. 2 ; 19 id. 1 ; I Baldw. C. C. 571 ; 1 Wash. C. C. 499 ; 2.111c Lean, C. C. 605 ; 3 id. 530. See SEIM'S ; BONDAGE; FREEDOM.
Vindictive or exenl plary datriages given beyond the actual dam age, by way of punishment and example, in cases of gross misconduct of defendant 15 Conn. 225 ; 14 Johns. N. Y. 352 ; 6 Hill, N. Y. 466. That it cannot be given by jury, see 2 Greenleaf, Ev. 4th ed../ 253, n. S69 EXEMPLARY DAMAGES.