inheritable blood

Defined in 7 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)

Definitions from Case Law

From 31 U.S. 102 - Lessee of Mordecai v. Peter M'Cartee · 1832Most cited · 60 citing opinions

That an alien has no inheritable blood, and can neither take land himself by descent, nor transmit land from himself to others by descent, is common learning, and requires no reasoning to support it.

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

Blood of an ancestor which, while it makes the person in whose veins it flows a relative, will also give him the legal rights of inheritance incident to that relationship. See 2 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 254, 255. Descendants can derive no title through a person whose blood is not inheritable. Such, in England, are persons attainted and aliens. But attainder is not known in this country. Id. See 4 Kent, Comm. 413, 424; 1 Hilliard Real Prop. 148; 2 Hilliard, Real Prop. 190.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Relationship by blood capable of transmitting an inheritance.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Blood of an ancestor which, while it makes the person in whose veins it flows a relative, will also give him the legal rights of inheritance Incident to that relationship. See 2 Bla. Com. 254, 255. Descendants can derive no title through a person whose blood is not inheritable. Such, in England, are persons attainted and aliens. But attainder is not known in this country. See 4 Kent 413, 424; 1 HUl. R. P. 148; 2 id. 190.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Blood which has the purity (freedom from attainder) and legitimacy necessary to give its possessor the character of a lawful heir; that which is capable of being the medium for the transmission of an inheritance.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Blood which gives to the person who has it the character of heir, or which may be the medium of transmitting an estate of inheritance; blood which has an inheritable quality.

Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law

Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881

Blood capable 'of transmitting an inheritance; as that of a legitimate son unattainted.