Adoption
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States · John Bouvier · 1839
A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States
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..