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Adoptivus

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. [from adaptare, to adopt.] Adoptive. Applied both to the parent adopting, and the child adopted.

Inst. 2. 13. 4. Id. 3. 1. 10—14.