Brother

domest. relat. He who is born from the same father and mother with another, or of one of them only. Brothers are of the whole blood when they are born from the same father and mother, and of the half blood, when they are the issue of one of them only. In the civil law when they are the germain; when they descend froin the same father, but not the same mother, they are consanguine brothers; when they are the issue of the same mother, but not the same father, they are uferine brothers. A half brother, is onc who is born of the same father or mother, but not of both. One born of the same parents before they were married, a left-sided brother; and a bastard born of the same father or mother, is called a natural brother. Vide Blood, Half blood, Line; and Merl. Répert. Mot. Frere Dict. de Jurisp.

Mot. Frére; Code, 3, 28, 27; Nov. 84, pref; Danc’s Ab. Index, h. t.