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Full Blood

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

(or WHOLE BLOOD.) A term of relation, denoting descent from the same couple. Brothers and sisters of fall blood are those who are bom of the same father and mother, or, as Justinian calls them, ex utroque parente conjuncti.

Nov, 118, c. 2, 3. 1 Mackeld. Citnl Law, 140, § 132.

The more usual term in modern law is whole blood, (q. v.)