ADOPTION AND LEGITIMATION
\ɐdˈɒpʃən and ləd͡ʒˌɪtɪmˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɐdˈɒpʃən and lədʒˌɪtɪmˈeɪʃən], \ɐ_d_ˈɒ_p_ʃ_ə_n a_n_d l_ə_dʒ_ˌɪ_t_ɪ_m_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
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Adoption, properly speaking, refers only to persons who are strangers in blood, and is not synonymous with "legitimation," which refers to persons of the same blood. Where one acknowledges his illegitimate child and takes it into his family and treats it as if it were legitimate, it is not properly an "adoption" but a "legitimation." Blythe v. Ayrcs, 90 Cal. 532, 31 Pac. 915, 19 L R. A. 40. To accept an alien as a citizen or member of a community or state and invest him with corresponding rights and privileges, either (in general and untechnical parlance) by naturalization, or by an act equivalent to naturalization, as where a white man is "adopted" by an Indian tribe. Hampton v. Mays, 4 Ind. T. 503, 09 S. W. 1115.
By Henry Campbell Black
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