Blood

[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.