Blood

Relationship; stock; family. 1 Rop. Leg. 103; 1 Belt, Supp. Ves. 365. Kindred. Bac. Max. reg. 18. Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood if they have the same father and mother, and of the half-blood if they have only one parent in common. 5 Whart. (Pa.) 477.

Relationship; stock; family. 1 Roper, Leg. 103; 1 Belt, Suppl. Ves. 365. Kindred. Bacon, Max. Reg. 18. 3 Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood if they have the same father and mother, and of the half-blood if they have only one parent in common. Baker v. Chalfant, 5 Whart. (Pa.) 477. See Oglesby Coal Co. v. Pasco, 79 111. 166; 15 Ves. 107. or on his belongings. Whether the Teutonic or the Anglo-Saxon law had a legal right of blood feud has been disputed, but in Alfred's day il was unlawful to begin a feud until an attempt had been made to exact the price of the life (wer-gild).

Kindred; consanguinity; family relationship; relation by descent from a common ancestor. One person is "of the blood" of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Miller v. Speer, 38 N. J. Eq. 572; Delaplaine v. Jones, 8 N. J. Law, 346; Leigh v. Leigh, 15 Ves. 108; Cummings v. Cummings, 146 Mass. 501, 16 N. E. 401; Swasey v. Jaques, 144 Mass. 135, IQ N. E. 758, 59 Am. Rep. 65.

— Half-blood. A term denoting the degree of relationship which exists between those who have the same father or the same mother, but not both parents in common.

— Mixed blood. A person is "of mixed blood" who is descended from ancestors of different races or nationalities ; but particularly, in the United States, the term denotes a person one of whose parents (or more remote ancestors) was a negro. See Hopkins v. Bowers, 111 N. C. 175, 16 S. E. 1.

— Whole blood. Kinship by descent from the same father and mother; as distinguished from half blood, which is the relationship of those who have one parent in common, but not bath.

Kindred; relationship; consanguinity; a person or persons so related, v. Whole blood; Half blood.

Kindred; consanguinity; family relationship; relation by descent from a common ancestor. One person is “of the blood” of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Brothers and sisters are said to be of the whole blood if they have the same father and mother, and of the hajf blood if they have only one parent in common. 5 Whart. 477.

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.

[Lat. sanguis; L. Fr. san Jce.l Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity. Webster. A person is said to be o^^^e blood qi another, when he is descended from, or collaterally related to him. See infra. A person or persons so related; as the whole bloody the half blood, (qq. v.) Blood, in American law, includes the half blood as well as the whole blood. 2 Peters' B. 58. A person is with the most strict propriety of language affirmed to he of t?ie blood of another, who has any, however small a portion of the same blood, derived from a common ancestor. Story, J., Id. 87. Mr. Justice Story observed in the case last referred to, that the word blood was used in the same sense in the English common law. There are passages, however, in which it seems to be used in the stricter sense, implying whole blood exclusively. See 2 Chitt, BL Com. 227. Id, 220, note. This was before the late statute 3 ife4 Will. 20 IV. c. 106. 1 St^h. Com. 386, 387. See Half blood. Whole blood.