case pearme against lisle October court of equity will not grant ne exeat  royal power for a mere legal demand for which the defendant may be hold to  bail will in case of alimony decree by the spiritual court order for ne exeat  royal power discharge the demand be for negro in Antigua and the defendant be  go there where he will be amenable see Robertson v Wilkie post and note there  d seal before mich term No entry in l r order for ne exeat royal power be make  on that April till answer and further order and to be mark pound on affidavit  to the follow effect that plaintiff be entitle to fourteen negro at Antigua  that his agent let they to defendant for hire at a yearly rend which amount to  pound Antigua money that the defendant refuse to pay for two year service  which be of the value of pound sterling and ambler also refuse to deliver the  negro to plaintiff agent that defendant have declare he ambler er p intend to  leave England soon and go to Antigua that plaintiff have no remedy at law his  witness be abroad and therefore file his bill in this court on motion to  discharge this order Lord Hardwicke c declare the rule of the court to be not  to grant a ne exeat royal power on a mere legal demand for money if it be of  such a value the defendant may be arrest and oblige to give bail who will be  liable unless they surrender he and he may be as easy take by that process as  on a ne exeat re royal power the almost only exception to that rule be in the  case of alimony decree by the spiritual court that court can take bail and  therefore this court will lend its assistance in favour of the woman on  consideration of the nature of the demand the merit of the case and the person  of the defendant and the place he be go to which be all the reason give for  grant this writ I will discharge the order saint as to the nature of the  demand it be for the use of negro a man may hire the servant of another  whether he be a slave or not and will be bind to satisfy the master for the  use of he I have no doubt but trover will lie for a negro slave it be as much  property as any other thing the case in salk be determine on the want of  proper description it be trover pro to make one  an Ethiopian peremptory or  urgent call negro without say slave and the be negro do not necessary imply  slave the reason say at the bar to have be give by Lord chief justice holt in  that case as the cause of his doubt videlicet that the moment a slave set foot  in England he become free have no weight with it nor can any reason be find  why they shall not be equal so when they set foot in Jamaica or any other  English plantation all our colony be subject to the law of England although as  to some purpose they have law of their own there be once a doubt whether if  they be Christian they will not become free by that act and there be  precaution take in the colony to prevent their be baptise till the opinion of  ford Talbot and m self then attorney ambler and solicitorgeneral be take on  that point we be both of opinion that it do not at all alter their state there  be former villain or slave in England and those of two sort regardant and in  gross and although tenor be take away there be no law that have destroy  servitude absolute trover may have be bring for a villain if a man be to come  into a court of record and confess himself villain to another which be one way  of be a villain what the consequence will be I will not say but there be no  law to abolish it at this time as to the merit a specific delivery of the  negro be pray but that be not necessary other be as good indeed in the case of  a cherrystone very fine engrave and likewise of a extraordinary wrought piece  of plate for the specific delivery of which bill be bring in this court they  can not be satisfy any other way their value arise on circumstance peculiar to  themselves but in other thing as diamond one may be as good as another duke of  Somerset v Cookson wms the negro can be deliver in the plight in which they be  at the time of the demand for they wear out with labour as cattle or other  thing nor can they be deliver on demand for they be like stock on a farm the  occupier can not do without they but he will be oblige in case of a sudden  delivery to quit the plantation the person of the defendant be amenable for be  be a native of Antigua he be go to Antigua his effect and likewise the negro  be there and have be use in that place it be a colony subject to England and  the plaintiff may have justice do he in the court there vide Robertson v  Wilkie July post S c dick curry v Mackenzie Dec see from lib Reg in Beamess Tr  ne ex Reg d edit p ex part Bruncker p W anon atk S c dick nom king v smith  Atkinson v Leonard bro c c Brocker v Hamilton dick though ex part Duncomb dick  nor for a legal demand against a attorney privilege from arrest gardener v Ves  smithson case vent read v read Ch can anon atk ex part Whitmore dick head v  head atk shaftoe v shaftoe Ves Dawson v Dawson ib Haffey v Haffey Ves see Mr  beam Tr on Writ ne ex Reg but the court will not grant the Writ pen a appeal  by the husband from the decree of the ecclesiastical court street v street t r  nor for interim alimony before decree ib see contra somersett v Stewart lofft  p S c how S Tr see ambler er p Mr hargrave argument in this case hark saint Tr  Vol Shamley v Harvey Eden see in William v brown Bos p see Lord stowell  judgement in the matter of a slave woman call grace deliver in the admiralty  court Nov in which case his lordship hold that a slave return to the colony  where she have be in slavery be notwithstanding her have be in England still  liable to all the disability of slavery