aforesaid; (20) father, in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adoptive father; (21) financial year shall mean ... expressions; (57) son, in the case of any one whose personal law permits adoption, shall include an adopted son; (58) [ State (a) as respects
Explanation .-Where the personal law of an employee permits the adoption by him of a child, any child lawfully adopted by him shall be deemed ... adoption is, under the personal law of the person making such adoption, lawful, such child shall be deemed to be excluded from the family
according to Hindu law, a right unrestricted by limitations. On the contrary, that law imposes on the right of adoption various and important limitations ... fountain heads of the law will be much drawn on for new principles in the Law of Adoption. They are indeed too meagre to afford
governed by Mitakshara School of Hindu Law and the personal law of custom of the family recognised adoption of a mate child ; that the family ... known about any ceremony of adoption being made amongst Christians and that there was no adoption in law in Christians. P.W. 2 Rev. Chacko
Adoption and Article 21 as a source or right of
adoption :
62. Motive of adoption under Hindu Law is both
religious as well as secular ... adopting a son.
10. Thus, the Hindu Law, Mohammedan Law and
Canon Law recognize adoption....."
A learned single judge of this court
Present Legal Position . . . . . .
3 Legislative efforts on Adoption Law . . . .
4 The International Law on Adoption . . .
5 Judicial Guidelines on Inter-Country Adoption
6 The Role ... introduces the element of 'provisional adoption order' as distin-
guished from 'adoption order'.
(C) Adoption being a 'legal fiction
Zamir
Ahmed, they are governed by Shariat Law. He has contended that
Muslim Law does not recognize adoption. It is not a concept applicable ... Personal Law automatically applies
and thus, section 5 of Punjab Laws Act as far as it compulsorily applied
Muslim Personal Law to adoption, wills
more an incident than the object of
adoption. Adoption was not known to the English Law until
the Adoption of Children Act, 1926. Under that ... taluqdars according to their personal laws, the peculiar
incidents of Hindu adoptions have no application. Under the
Hindu Law, adoption has primarily to be viewed
blood
relationship or by adoption, living at the time of adoption.
Prior to the Act under the old Hindu Law, Article 3 provided as
follows ... adoption. (See Hindu Law by
S. V. Gupte, Third Edition at pages 899-906). The whole law of
Dattaka adoption is evolved from two important
recent decisions of the Privy Council have affected the law of adoption in this Presidency. The question is of great importance since questions relating ... administering the Hindu law to consider the religious duty of adopting a son as the essential foundation of the law of adoption; and the effect
