RG1.3. Adoptions
Record Group
Identifier: RG1.3
The act of one who takes another’s child into his own family, treating him as his own, and giving him all the rights and duties of his own child. A juridical act creating between two persons certain relations, purely civil, of paternity and filiation. 6 Demol.
-From Black's Law Dictionary, Revised 4th Ed.
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Term Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG1
Scope and Contents
Described by the Library of Virginia as Judgements, these records were known in the Fredericksburg courts as Term Papers. This was a general term for, “loose court papers used by clerks to describe legal records generated by the locality during a specific court session (month/year). Typically, these records were tri-folded and wrapped in bundles with no attempt made by the clerk to differentiate among the various record types within a bundle. Therefore, a bundle of judgments...
Dates:
1800-1950
