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Half-blood
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HALF-BLOOD, parentage, kindred. When persons have only one parent in common, they are of the half-blood. For example, if John marry Sarah and has a son by that marriage, and after Sarah's death he marry Maria, and has by her another son, these children are of the half-blood; whereas two of the children of John and Sarah would be of the whole blood.
     2. By the English common law, one related to an intestate of the half- blood only, could never inherit, upon the presumption that he is not of the blood of the original purchaser; but this rule has been greatly modified by the 3 and 4 Wm. IV. c. 106.
     3. In this country the common law principle on this subject may be considered as not in force, though in some states some distinction is still preserved between the whole and the half-blood. 4 Kent, Com. 403, n.; 2 Yerg. 115; 1 M'Cord, 456; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Reeves on Descents, passim. Vide Descents.
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The hair on the neck is also cut to show the length and beauty of the neck, said Al-Hajri, adding that all these points are essential for evaluating the beauty and blood purity of the goat.
Men who stare at goats Saudi style by Arab News (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)
Finally, rather than substituting incest for monogenism, Hopkins demonstrates that, ultimately, one cannot maintain "pure races" protected against miscegenation without an incestuous doctrine of blood purity, and yet one cannot celebrate the unity of a single human family without embracing familial or even sibling affinity.
Pauline Hopkins and the End of Incest by Salvant, Shawn / African American Review
The attractive little ruddy ducks have, therefore, been sentenced to death in the name of blood purity.
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