There  wen  certain  aacnd  rites  (tOfTa  gemSiitiay
which  belonged  to  a  gms,  to  the  obaertance  al
which  all  the  memben  of  a  gens,  as  waA,  wen
bound,  whether  they  were  memben  by  birtl^
adoptim,  or  adrogation.  A  person  was  freed  bam
the  observance  of  such  sacra,  and  loot  the  privil^fea
connected  with  his  gentile  rights,  when  he  lost  oil
gena,  that  ia,  when  he  was  adrogated,  adopted^  or
oren  emancipated  ;  for  adrogation,  adoptiim,  and
emancipation  wen   accompanied    by  a  diminutis

When  the  adoption  was  from  onefiuoflia  into
another  of  the  same  gens,  the  name  of  the  gens  waa
■till  retained ;  and  when  a  an  was  emancipated,
the  name  of  the  gens  was  still  retained  ;  and  jet
in  both  these  cases,  if  we  adopt  the  deGnitiOD  of
Scoerola,  the  adopted  and  emandpated  penooa  loat
the  gentile  riglits,  though  they  ven  also  freed  frnia
the  gentile  buident  (taen).  In  the  case  of  adop-
tion and  adrogaUon,  the  adopted  and  adngated
person  who  pasted  into  a  familim  of  another  gen^
must  have  passed  into  the  gens  of  such  faftiitjt^
and  so  must  have  acqdrcd  the  rigbti  of  that  gens.
