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Home Dictionary Name: bloodFull blood and half blood
Full blood and half blood, two persons are said to be related to each of the by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor or but by different wives. [Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 3 (c)](i) two persons are said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife, and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives;(ii) two persons are said to be related to each other by uterine blood when they are descended from a common ancestress but by different husbands;Explanation.--In this clause 'ancestor' includes the father and 'ancestress' the mother. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e)]...
Half blood
Half blood, means two persons one said to be related to each other by full blood when they are descended from a common ancestor by the same wife and by half blood when they are descended from a common ancestor but by different wives. [Hindu Succession Act, 1956 (30 of 1956), s. 3(e); Special Marriage Act, 1954, s. 2(b)]The relationship through one only and not through both of the parents or other ancestors. By the old law a relative of the half-blood could not inherit real estate, but this was altered by the Inheritance Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 106). In the succession to personal estate there was no distinction between the whole and the half-blood until 1926, when the Admin. Of Estates Act, 1925, ss. 46 & 47, enacted that the half-blood are only entitled to the distribution of an intestate estate on the total absence of the whole blood in equal degree; see FRATER FRATRI, etc.The relationship existing between persons having the same mother or father, but not both parents in common, Bl...
cold blood
cold blood : a state of mind marked by premeditation and deliberateness usually used in the phrase in cold blood [killed the victim in cold blood] compare cool state of blood, heat of passion cold-blood·ed [kōld-blə-dəd] adj ...
Stranger in blood
Stranger in blood, a person in no degree of relation-ship to another. See schedule to the Stamp Act, 1815 (Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Death Duties'), by which 10 per cent. duty is payable on a legacy 'to or for the benefit of any stranger in blood to the deceased' testator. An illegitimate child is treated by the Inland Revenue authorities as a 'stranger in blood' within the Act; but see May and August numbers of the Law Magazine and Review of 1905. Aliter as to legitimated children, see Legitimacy Act, 1926, s. 7.One not related by blood, such as relative by affinity, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1433....
Blood
Blood, kindred, lineage. It is a maxim that none shall claim as heir who is not of the blood (i.e., kindred) of the purchaser, Co. Litt. 12 a. and see STRANGER IN BLOOD.The relationship arising by descent from a common ancestor; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Blood tests
Blood tests, means blood tests carried out under the Family Law Reforms Act, 1969, including any test made with the object of ascertaining the inheritable characteristics of blood, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 5(3), 4th Edn., Para 113, p. 74....
cool state of blood
cool state of blood :an emotional condition in which a person's anger or passion is not great enough to overcome his or her faculties or ability to reason often used in statutory definitions of murder compare cold blood, heat of passion ...
corruption of blood
corruption of blood :the effect of an attainder which bars a person from inheriting, retaining, or transmitting any estate, rank, or title [no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood "U.S. Constitution art. III"] ...
Blooded
Having pure blood or a large admixture or pure blood of approved breed of the best stock...
Cold blooded
Having cold blood said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them...
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