Blood

1.

Relationship; stock; family; consanguinity. To be "of the blood" of a person means 1 1 Kent, 146-47. s United States v. The William Arthur, 3 Ware, 280-81 (1861). = Prize Cases, 3 Black, 665, 633 (1862), Grier, J. •The Circassian, 2 Wall. 150-51, 135 (1864), Chase, to be descended from him or from the same common stock. All those are of the blood of an ancestor who may, in the absence of other and nearer heirs, take by descent from him.i A person is " of the blood " of another who has any, however small a portion, of the same blood derived from a common ancestor. When it is intended to express any qualification, the word whole or half blood is used to designate it, or the qualification is in;plied from the context or from known principles of law. In the common law, *' blood " was used in the same sense." See Sister. Originally, feuds and estates descended to none not of the " blood of the first purchaser: " because what was given for personal service and merit ought not, it was held, to descend to any but heirs of the person.* See Akcestor; ATTAi NnBR; Coksaksuinity; Descent; Privy, 2; Purchaser; Relation, 3.

2.

Temper of mind; state of the passions; disposition.

Cold blood

Undisturbed use of reason; calm deliberation.

See Cooling Time.