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Negro

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Generally a person belonging to the African race, and having such a proportion of African blood as will identify him with that race.

5 Jones, Law (N. C.) 11; 80 Va. 544.

It has been held to mean a black man and not to include a mulatto.

18 Ala. 20.