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1425 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Apr. 1425 §12. m. 2 My lord of Stafford..not withstondyng his discent of þis riall hool blode, and not demy sank.

1445–6 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1445 §26. m. 9 No maner Walssh man of hole blode, ne half blode on the fader side.

1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Notts. 372/1 He begot Alice, Ioan, and Margaret, which two latter dying without issue, Alice recovered their purparts as heir of the whole blood.

1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. viii. 43 The distinction..between those of the whole, and those of the half Blood of Athens.

1777 G. Mason Plan of Revisors 13 Jan. in T. Jefferson Papers (1950) II. 326 Relations of the half Blood to have half a Share with those in equal Degree of the whole Blood.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. viii. 113 As for me, who am of the whole blood of the whites.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 341 The half-blood, if descended from a common male ancestor, is to take next after any relation in the same degree of the whole blood.

1919 Encycl. Americana XIII. 636/2 So that brothers consanguinean inherit next after the sisters of the whole blood and their issue; and brothers uterine inherit next after the mother.

1994 M. M. Mahoney Stepfamilies & Law iii. 59 C-1 and C-2 are siblings of the whole blood, because they had the same parents; C-1 and C-3 are siblings of the half blood, because they had different fathers.