Mulatto
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
A mulatto is defined to be " a person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro." Thurman o.
State, 18 Ala. 276.
A person begotten between a white and a black. The issue of such person and a white is not a mulatto.
Inhabitants of Medway v. Inhabitants of Natiek, 7 Mass. 88.
The offspring of a white woman and a negro father is a mulatto, within the meaning of the act of South Carolina of 1740, who can be tried and punished for a criminal offence only by a court of magistrates MULiIER PUISNE. The lawful issue preferred before an elder brother bom out of matrimony. See Eign. Mulier, as used in oiu: law, seems to be a word corrupted from melior, or the French meilleuT; and signifies the lawful issue, bom in wedlock, preferred before an elder brother bom out of matrimony. But by Glanvil lawful issue are said to be mulier, not from melior, but because begotten e mullere, and not ex concubina; for he calls such issue JUios mulieratos, opposing them to bastards. Glano. lib.
7, ch. 1.
It appears to be thus used in Scotland, also; Skene saying, mviieratus JUius is a lawful son, begotten of a lawful wife.
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