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BLOCK. A square or portion of a city or town inclosed by streets, whether par tially or wholly occupied by buildings or containing only vacant lots. Ottawa v. Bar ney, 10 Kan. 270; Fraser v. Ott, 95 Cal. 661, 30 Pac. 793; State v. Deffes, 44 La. Ann. 164, 10 South. 597; Todd v. Railroad Co., 78 111. 530; Harrison v. People, 195 111. 466, 63 N. EL 191. BLOCK OF SURVEYS. In Pennsylva nia land law. Any considerable body of contiguous tracts surveyed in the name of the same warrantee, without regard to the manner in which they were originally lo cated; a body of contiguous tracts located by exterior lines, but not separated from each other by interior lines. Morrison v. Seaman, 183 Pa. 74, 38 Atl. 710; Ferguson v. Bloom, 144 Pa. 549, 23 Atl. 49. BLOCKADE. In international law. A marine investment or beleaguering of a town or harbor. A sort of circumvallation round a place by which all foreign connection and correspondence is, as far as human power can effect it, to be cut off. 1 C. Rob. Adm. 151. It is not necessary, however, that the place should be invested by land, as well as by sea, in order to constitute a legal block ade; and, if a place be blockaded by sea only, it is no violation of belligerent rights for the neutral to carry on commerce with it by inland communications. 1 Kent, Comm. 147. The actual investment of a port or place by a hostile force fully competent, under ordinary cir cumstances, to cut off all communication there with, so arranged or disposed as to be able to apply its force to every point of practicable ac cess or approach to the port or place so invest ed. Bouvier; The Olinde Rodrigues (D. C.) 91 Fed. 274; Id., 174 U. S. 510, 19 Sup. Ct. 851, 43 LL Eld. 1065: U. S. v. The William Arthur, 28 Fed. Cas. 624; The Peterhoff, 5 Wall. 50, 18 L. Ed. 564; Grinnan v. Edwards, 21 W. Va. 347. It is called a "blockade de facto" when the usual notice of the blockade has not been given to the neutral powers by the govern ment causing the investment, in consequence of which the blockading squadron has to warn off all approaching vessels. —Paper blockade. The state of a line of coast proclaimed to be under blockade in time of war, when the naval force on watch is not sufficient to repel a real attempt to enter.— Pub lic blockade. A blockade which is not only es tablished in fact, but is notified, by the govern ment directing it, to other governments; as dis tinguished from a simple blockade, which may be established by a naval officer acting upon his own discretion or under direction of superiors, without governmental notification. The Circas sian, 2 Wall. 150, 17 L. Ed. 796.— Simple blockade. One established by a naval com mander acting on his own discretion and re sponsibility, or under the direction of a superi or officer, but without governmental orders or notification. The Circassian, 2 Wall. 150, 17 L. Ed. 796. BLOOD. Kindred; consanguinity; fam ily relationship; relation by descent from a

common ancestor. One person Is "of the blood" of another when they are related by lineal descent or collateral kinship. Miller v. Speer, 38 N. J. Eq. 572; Delaplaine v. Jones, 8 N. J. Law, 346; Leigh v. Leigh, 15 Ves. 108; Cummings v. Cummings, 146 Mass. 501, 16 N. EL 401; Swasey v. Jaques, 144 Mass. 135, 1Q N. E. 758, 59 Am. Rep. 65. —Half-blood. A term denoting the degree of relationship which exists between those who have the same father or the same mother, but not both parents in common.— Mixed blood. A person is "of mixed blood" who is descended from ancestors of different races or nationali ties ; but particularly, in the United States, the term denotes a person one of whose parents (or more remote ancestors) was a negro. See Hop kins v. Bowers, 111 N. C. 175, 16 S. E. 1.— Whole blood. Kinship by descent from the same father and mother; as distinguished from half blood, which is the relationship of those who have one parent in common, but not both. A weregild, or pe cuniary mulct paid by a slayer to the rela tives of his victim. Also used, in a popular sense, as descrip tive of money paid by way of reward for the apprehension and conviction of a person charged with a capital crime. BLOOD MONEY. shed. Cowell. The privilege of taking such amercements. Skene. A privilege or exemption from paying a fine or amercement assessed for bloodshed. Cowell. In forest law. The having the hands or other parts bloody, which, in a person caught trespassing in the forest against venison, was one of the four kinds of circumstantial evidence of his hav ing killed deer, although he was not found in the act of chasing or hunting. Manwood. A supposititious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal conduct in the colonies of Con necticut' and New Haven; hence any rigid Sunday laws or religious regulations. The assertion by some writers of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption, by the first authorities of the New Haven colony, of the Scriptures as their code of law and government, and their strict application of Mosaic principles. Century Diet A committee of persons organ ized under authority of law in order to exer cise certain authorities, have oversight or control of certain matters, or discharge cer tain functions of a magisterial, representa tive, or fiduciary character. Thus, "board BLOODY HAND. BLUE LAWS. BOARD. BLOOD STAINS, TESTS FOB. PRECIPITIN TEST. BLOODWIT. An amercement for blood

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