Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

mixed blood

Defined in 3 dictionaries — Case Law, U.S. Code, Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 234 U.S. 245 - United States v. First National Bank · 1914Most cited · 118 citing opinions

all who have an identifiable mixture of white blood.

United States Code

25 U.S.C. § 677A — for the purposes of this subchapter

“Mixed-blood” means a member of the tribe who does not possess sufficient Indian or Ute Indian blood to fall within the full-blood class as herein defined, and those who become mixed-bloods by choice under the provisions of section 677c of this title.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A person is "of mixed blood" who is descended from ancestors of different races or nationalities ; but particularly, in the United States, the term denotes a person one of whose parents (or more remote ancestors) was a negro. See Hopkins v. Bowers, 111 N. C. 175, 16 S. E. 1.

Defined under Blood in Black's Law Dictionary.