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.
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