V111, 3-8a.] LIBRO SINGVLARI REGVLARVM
[VIII. DE ADOPTIONIBUS]

1. Non tantum naturales liberi in potestate parentum sunt sed etiam adoptiui. 2. Adoptio fit aut per populum aut per praetorem uel praesidem prouinciae. illa adoptio quae per populum. fit, specialiter adrogatio dicitur. 3. Per populum qui sui iuris sunt adrograntur; per praetorem autem filii familiae a parentibus dantur in adoptionem. 4. Adrogatio Romae dumtaxat fit; adoptio autem etiam in prouinciis apud praesides. 5 Per praetorem uel praesidem. prouinciae adoptari tam masculi quam feminae, et tam puberes quam inpuberes possunt. per populum uero Romanum feminae non adrogantur; pupilli ante quidem non poterant adrogari, nunc autem possunt ex constitutione diui Antonini. 6. Hi qui generare non possunt, uelut spado, utroque modo possunt adoptare. idem iuris est in persona caelibis. 7. Item is qui filium non habet in locum nepotis adoptare potest, 8. Si pater familiae adrogandum se dederit, liberi quoque eius quasi nepotes in potestate fiunt adrogatoris. 8a Feminae uero neutro mode possunt adoptare, quoniam nec naturales liberos in potestate habent.

1. It is not only natural but also adoptive children that are in the potestas of parents. 2. Adoption is effected either by intervention of the people or by that of a praetor or provincial governor. That effected by intervention of the people is specifically called adrogation. 3. It is persons sui uris that are adrogated by the people's authority: filiifamilias are given in adoption by their parents by authority of the praetor. 4. Adrogation can take place only in Rome; but adoption may take place even in the provinces before the governors. 5. Both males and females, and whether puberate or impuberate, may be adopted by authority of a praetor or governor of a province. But women cannot be adrogated by co-operation of the Roman people; neither in former days could pupils, although now they may according to one of the constitutions of the late emperor Antoninus [Pius]. 6. Those who are unable to procreate, such as eunuchs, may adopt by either mode. The rule is the same in the case of an unmarried person. 7. Further, he who has no son may adopt [a child] in the character of a grandson. 8. When a paterfamilias gives himself in adrogation, his children also fall under the potestas of the adrogator in the character of grand children. 8a. But women cannot adopt by either method, for they have not even their natural children in potestate.