Adoption
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
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-