Laws appertaining to Children legitimate, Spurious, or Adopted.
THEY only shall be reckon'd Citizens, whose Parents are both so.
He shall be lookt on as a Bastard, whose Mother is not Free.
Let none of Spurious birth, whether male, or female intermedle with either sacred, or civil Affairs from the time of Euclides being Archon.
That inheritance shall pass for good, which is given by a childless Person to an adopted Son.
Adoption must be made by Persons living.
No one, except the Person who adopted shall have a legitimate Son, shall relinquish the Family into which he is adopted, to return into his Natural.
Parents may give their Children what Names they will, or change those they have for others.
Whenever Parents come to enroll their Children, whether ge∣nuine, or adopted in the publick Register, they are oblig'd to profess by Oath, that they were lawfully begotten of a Free-woman.
Beasts design'd at this time for the Altar are to be of a certain weight, a Goat to weigh fifty 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and two Sheep fourty-eight.