Adoption
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Adoption the idea
adopted son · adoptio · adoption · adrogatio · given son
in the texts
Institutes of Roman Law
The act of adopting a son after a will is made, which invalidates the will.
If after making his will a man adopts as son either a person sui juris by means of the people (in comitia) or one subject to the power of an ascendant by means of the Praetor, his will is inevitably revoked as it would be by the subsequent birth of a self-successor.
§ 138. Si quis post factum testamentum adoptauerit sibi filium aut per populum eum qui sui iuris est, aut per praetorem eum qui in potestate parentis fuerit, omni modo testamentum eius rumpitur quasi agnatione sui heredis.
Ancient Law
The legal act of creating fictitious blood-relationship to continue a family line.
The habit of regarding Adoption and Testation as modes of continuing the Family cannot but have had something to do with the singular laxity of Roman notions as to the inheritance of sovereignty.
No Adoption was allowed to take place without due provision for the sacra of the family from which the adoptive son was transferred, and no Testament was allowed to distribute an Inheritance without a strict apportionment of the expenses of these ceremonies among the different co-heirs.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The institution of adopting a son, especially from a different gotra, and its complications for ancestral rites.
**The Duty of an Adopted Son**
**An Adopted Son from a Different Gotra**
**The Sāpiṇḍya of the Adoptive Father by the Adopted Son**