Servitus est constitutio jure gentium qua quis domino alieno contra naturam subjicitur. Slavery is an institution by the law of nations, by which a man is subjected to the dominion of another, contrary to nature. Inst. 1, 3, 2; ‘Co. Litt. 116.

a: legislative body,) as distinguished from a ‘special or extra session.—Session laws. The name commonly given to the body of laws enacted by a eatate legislature at one of its annual or biennial sessions. So called to distinguish them from the “compiled laws” or “revised statutes” of the state —Session of the peace, in English law, is a sitting of -Justices of the peace for the exercise of their powers. There are four kinds,—petty, special,