CORRUPTION OF BLOOD

glossary / corruption of blood

CORRUPTION OF BLOOD

corruption of blood. A defunct doctrine, now considered unconstitutional, under which a person loses the ability to inherit or pass property as a result of an attainder or of being declared civilly dead.

¡ª Also termed corruption of the blood. See ATTAINDER; civil death (1) under DEATH.

¡°Corruption of blood is, when any one is attainted of felony or treason, then his blood is said to be corrupt; by means whereof neither his children, nor any of his blood, can be heirs to him, or to any other ancestor, for that they ought to claim by him. And if he were a noble or gentleman before, he and all his children are made thereby ignoble and ungentle ….¡± Termes de la Ley 125 (1st Am. ed. 1812).

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