(thing) by EverybodysCyclopedia Sun Aug 11 2002 at 5:53:51

Corruption of Blood, in law, the incapacity to inherit, or pass an inheritance, in consequence of an attainder to which the party has been suspect. In the United States it is abolished by the Federal Constitution.

Entry from Everybody's Cyclopedia, 1912.

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