adoption
Defined in 7 dictionaries — U.S. Code, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Black's (1891), Burrill (1850), Bouvier (1839)
United States Code
33 U.S.C. § 902 — in this chapter
The terms “adoption” or “adopted” mean legal adoption prior to the time of the injury.
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The act by which a person takes the child of another into his family, and treats him as his own. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, or paternity and filiation. 6 Demolombe Code Nap. § 1. As used in the law the word has a strict significance and implies some form of legal procedure. 201 111. 116. ADOPTIVUS (Lat. from adoptare, to adopt).
In the civil law. Adoptive. Ap-
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
The act of one who takes another's child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, of paternity and filiation. 6 Demol. § 1.
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
See Adoptio.
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
John Bouvier · 1839
civil law, the act by which a person chooses another from a strange family, to have all the rights of his own child. Merl. Répert, h. t- By art. 232, of the civil code of Louisiana, it is abolished in that state. It never was in use in any other of the United States..