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ADOPTION

Legal Term: ADOPTION
Definition: 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.



***All definitions are taken from the 1856 Edition of Bouviers Law Dictionary

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