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1. The full adoption, in the comitia curiata (also known as the Curiate Assembly), and in the presence of the pontifices, or later on of the emperor, of an adult in the place of a child who is a paterfamilias.

예문

• Quod per praetorem fit, adoptatio dicitur, quod per populum, arrogatio. (Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Liber Quintus, XIX 3:1)

  (아울루스 겔리우스, 아테네의 밤, , 3:1)