2. That there be a family unto which
of himself he hath no right, whereinto he is to be grafted. If a man comes
into a family upon a personal right, though originally at never so
great a distance, that man is not adopted. If a man of a most remote
consanguinity do come into the inheritance of any family by the death of
the nearer heirs, though his right before were little better than nothing,
yet he is a born son of that family, — he is not adopted. [In adoption] he
is not to have the plea of the most remote possibility of
succession.