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ing father extended over the children and the 

 grandchildren of the person adopted. * * * * 

 From Eoman law quite naturally the practice 

 became incorporated in the jurisprudence of the 

 Latin races. In ancient epochs it was prevalent 

 in some portions of France, but not permitted in 

 others. It seems to have been of varying kinds. 

 There was a form whereby a man took the name 

 of the person adopting him and agreed to bear 

 arms in his behalf. This did not give him any 

 new property rights. * * * * The Code Napo- 

 leon, which crystallized the French law, did not 

 provide for an absolute change of family. In- 

 deed, it did not permit the adoption of minors, 

 but prepared the way for adoption by creating 

 what was termed an ofiScial tutorship. By the 

 Spanish law the person adopted succeeded as 

 heir to the one adopting him. * * * * The 

 Assyrians, the Greeks, and the Egyptians all 

 recorded it. In Greece, in the interests of the 

 next of kin, it was provided that the ceremony 

 should be attended with certain formalities and 

 take place at the time of certain festivals. 

 Among the Egyptians we have the historic a- 



