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Full Blood

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A term of relation, denoting descent from the same couple. Brothers and sisters of full blood are those who are born of the same father and mother, or, as Justinian calls them, "ex utroque parente conjuneti."

Nov. 118, cc. 2, 3; Mackeld. Civ. Law, § 145.

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