Negro
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 negro is a person having in his veins one-sixteenth or more of African blood.
State v. Chavers, 5 Jones, 11.
The word negro means a black man, one descended from the African race, and does not commonly include a mulatto.
Felix V. State, 18 Ala. 720.