Adoption
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also in the atlas: Adoption the event
adoption · adoptio · adopted · adoption of children · adoptive sons · adoptivi filii · giving in adoption · rightfully established · son by adoption
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Institutes of Roman Law
The Roman procedure transferring a child from paternal power of one father into that of another.
Justinian simplified the formalities of emancipation and adoption.
Minima est capitis deminutio, cum et ciuitas et libertas retinetur, sed status hominis commutatur;
To give a son in adoption, the first stage is three mancipations and two intervening manumissions, as in emancipation;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
The legal fiction of admitting a child from outside the family, discussed as one of several devices for securing an heir who can perform ancestral sacrifices.
This familiarity with Adoption, during such a length of history, blinds us to the fact that it is one of the most violent of fictions.
’ I cannot doubt that the growing popularity of Adoption, as a method of obtaining a fictitious son, was due to moral dislike of the other modes of affiliation which was steadily rising among the Brahman teachers in the law-schools.
and has also led to the power very generally vested in her by Hindu law and usage of taking a son to her deceased husband by simple adoption.
Against Leochares
Legal creation of filial status, contested here because the opponents allegedly extended adoption through successive adopted persons.
Further, it is surely not just that an adopted son should bring other sons into a family by adoption;
We admit here in your presence that all adoptions, if rightly made in accordance with the laws, ought to be valid.
It was to guard against this that the lawgiver forbade a person who was himself adopted to create a son by adoption.
Ancient Law
The legal institution of formally bringing outsiders into the family and its kinship system.
Where the Potestas begins, Kinship begins;
If the system of archaic law at which we are looking be one which admits Adoption, we must add to the Agnates thus obtained all persons, male or female, who have been brought into the Family by the artificial extension of its boundaries.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Legal practice by which outsiders are incorporated into a family, cited as adulterating natural kinship.
Nevertheless the Irish Family undoubtedly received additions through Adoption.
Law in a Free State
The legal institution by which a person is recognized as another's child regardless of birth, proposed as a method of legitimation to be revived in English law.
there was the process of adoption, whereby any person whatever could become the legitimate son or daughter of the adoptive parents under certain legal forms.
At any rate we do know that in the noblest days of Rome, its wisest and best of emperors, Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius, all succeeded to the purple, not by birth, but by adoption.
that is to say, by publicly registering his willingness to admit the paternity of the unborn child of a certain woman,—and this is marriage,—or by publicly registering the fact that he is the father of a child already born and living;