the destruction, extinction, or, at least, cessation for a time, of the proper mode of existence of any natural body. See Putrefaction.

CORRUPTION of blood, in law, an infection accruing to a man's state, attainted of felony and treason, and to his issue; for as he loses all to the prince, &c., his issue cannot be heirs to him, or to any other ancestor by him: and if he were noble, his heirs are rendered ignoble.