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Glossary : adoption

Definition 1


civil law. The act
by which a person chooses another from a
strange family, to have all the
rights of his own child. Merl. Repert. h. t.,
Dig. 1, 7, 15, 1, and see
Arrogation. 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.


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