If no male heir was born, adoption was an option. People preferred - though no legal obligation was involved - to adopt one of their own kinsfolk, normally a male who had already come of age. This gave them the option of direct transfer of the family property. Even when such an adoption was made, the same procedure of presenting the adoptee to the brotherhood of his adoptive father and enrolling him on the deme register had to be followed.
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