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Definition of Half blood
1. Noun. One of siblings who have only one parent in common.
Definition of Half blood
1. n. A person so related to another.
Definition of Half blood
1. Noun. (legal) A person shares one parent with another; a half-sibling. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Half blood
1. 1. The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, 2 and 4. 2. A person so related to another. 3. A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed. In the 2d and 3d senses usually with a hyphen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Half Blood
Literary usage of Half blood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"the chances are three to one against his uncle of the half blood, ... Therefore,
the much less probability of the half blood's descent from the first ..."
2. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Place of the half- blood in propositus, it still left open a question about the
... Our law's treatment of' the half-blood' has been a favourite theme for ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, William Draper Lewis (1902)
"Perhaps by this time the exclusion of the half-blood does not appear altogether
so unreasonable as at first sight it is apt to do. ..."
4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"That at common law the phrase "of the blood," includes "the half blood." Mr.
Whipple, for the plaintiff, made the following points: 2. ..."
5. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"... was defined to include the aboriginal races inhabiting Alaska when annexed to
the United States, and their descendante of the whole or half blood, ..."
6. A Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"Until very recent times (January i, 1834') the doctrine CH. vm. of blood was
applied in a very remarkable manner so as to exclude the half-blood from the ..."
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