ADOPTIVE

ADOPTIVE, Adoptivus, or Adoptivius, a person adopted by another. See ADOPTION.

The Emperor Hadrian preferred adoptive children to natural ones; by reason we choose the former, but are obliged to take the latter at random. Adoptive children, among the Romans, were on the same footing with natural ones; For which reason, they were either to be instituted heirs, or expressly disinherited; otherwise, the testament was null.M. Menage has published a book of Eloges, or verses addressed to him, which he calls Liber Adoptivus, an adoptive book; and adds it to his other works. Hetusius and Furstemberg of Munster have likewise published adoptive books.

ADOPTIVE