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Colored Person

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1891)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

This term generally refers to one of the negro race. There is no legal technical signification to this phrase which the courts are bound judicially to know; Pauska v. Daus, 31 Tex. 74. See Negro.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

A person of Afican descent or negro blood,