Term: adoption: a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit)
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: street: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: calash: the folding hood of a horse-drawn carriage
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: analyticity: the property of being analytic
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: eastern ground snake: in some classifications placed in genus Haldea; small reddish-grey snake of eastern North America
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: handsomeness: the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: strike-slip fault: a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: vice chancellor: a deputy or assistant to someone bearing the title of chancellor
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: lo/ovral: trade name for an oral contraceptive containing estradiol and norgestrel
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: madia: genus of sticky herbs with yellow flowers open in morning or evening but closed in bright light
Broader: proceeding: (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Unrelated: olive: small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil