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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

Ballots upon paper tinged with blue, which has ruled lines, not placed there as marks to distinguish the ballots from others, are upon "white paper," within the meaning of the statute.

People v. Kilduff, 15 Ill. 402.

Persons are white, within the meaning of Michigan state constitution, who have less than one-fourth of African blood.

People v. Dean, 14 Mich. 406.

The son of a white man and a half-breed Indian woman is, in Ohio, a "free white citizen," and a legal voter.

Jeffries v. Ankeny, 11 Ohio, 312.