Examples from literature

• An adopted son passes completely out of the family of his natural, into that of his adoptive, father, all his rights and duties as a son being at the same time transferred. 
• His adoptive father shall give him of his wealth one-third of a child's portion, and then he may go. 
• His language to his emperor and adoptive father was deeply respectful and he spoke modestly of himself. 
• This can be seen nowhere better than in his attitude toward his adoptive father Julius Caesar. 
• Thus there came to the empire only experienced men, who without confusion assumed the throne of their adoptive fathers.