What is ADOPTION? Definition of ADOPTION in Black's Law Dictionary
The taking and receiving as one's own that to which he bore no prior relation, color- able or otherwise. Davies v. Lahann, C.C.A.N.M., 145 F.2d 656, 659. The act of one who takes an- other's child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. See In re Chambers' Estate, 183 N.Y.S. 526, 528, 112 Misc. 551. sin manner provided by and with consequences specified in statute. Fisher v. Robison, 329 Pa. 305, 198 A. 81, 82. A. juridicial act creating between two persons cer- tain relations, purely civil, of paternity and filia- tion. 6 Demol. § 1; Grimes v. Grimes, 207 N.C. 778, 178 S.E. 573. The relation thereby created is a statutory status, not a contractual relation. Caruso v. Caruso, 13 N.Y.S.2d 239, 241, 175 Misc.
290. Though legal adoption may confer on per- son adopted rights of actual relationship of child, simple "adoption" extends only to his treatment as member of the household. Shepherd v. Sov- ereign Camp, W.O.W., 166 Va. 488, 186 S.E. 113,
116. See, also, Adopt.
Adoption, properly speaking, refers only to persons who are strangers in blood, In re Lund's Estate, Cal.App., 148 P.2d 709, 711. And is not synonymous with "legitimation," which refers to persons of the same blood. Blythe v. Ayres, 96 Cal. 532, 31 P. 915, 19 L.R.A. 40. But this dis- tinction is not always observed. In re Presly's Estate, 113 Okl. 160, 240 P. 89, 90. It is a relationship artificially cre- ated by statute. Borner v. Larson, 70 N. D. 313, 293 N.W. 836, 839.
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