Affiliation
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
The act of imputing or determining the paternity of a child. A species of adoption which exists by custom in some parts of France. The person affiliated succeeded equally with other heirs to the property acquired by the deceased to whom he had been affiliated, but not to that which he inherited. In Ecclesiastical Law. A condition which prevented the superior from removing the person affiliated to another convent Guyot, Re'pert.