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.
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.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
The institution of adopting a son, especially from a different gotra, and its complications for ancestral rites.
If a son given is from another *gotra* (गोत्र), he should then perform the *sapiṇḍana* (सपिण्डन) for his adoptive father with his father's ancestors.
If an adopted son is from a different *gotra* (गोत्र), then in his lineage, for the descendants down to the fourth generation, there is a great difficulty.
Therefore, a sonless man should adopt a son from the same *gotra* (*sagotre* (सगोत्रे)).