Summa Theologiae by St Thomas Aquinas
XP: Treatise On Contrition
Q57 Of Legal Relationship, Which Is By Adoption
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We must now consider legal relationship which is by adoption. Under this head there are three points of inquiry:

A1 What is adoption?

A2 Whether one contracts through it a tie that is an impediment to marriage?

A3 Between which persons is this tie contracted.

 
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