year 1860 Manki Bahu adopted a boy named Sita Ram. After the adoption Sita Ram was named Parshottam Das. It appears that the natural father ... Sita Ram was dead at the time of adoption and Sita Ram, was given in adoption by Mt. Jassa, his natural mother, by means
verdict of the Pandits which had previously been pronounced against the adoption was erroneous in law and had been obtained by corrupt means ... Raja died "without leaving a son by birth or adoption" and his father Serfoji was only an adopted son. On October 18th
concerned there
is no material difference in this respect between an
adoption and an act of surrender by the widow.
As a surrender ... forward the
claim of her adopted son. The District Judge regarded the
adoption to be invalid and by his order dated November 29,
1924, appointed
began between his mother and his adoptive mother as to whether the adoption was legal or illegal, each claiming a widow's estate ... uncles of the Medur minor and claimed, on the basis that the adoption was bad, to succeed to the testatrix as the heirs
suit in 1915 for a declaration that the first plaintiff's adoption by Rani Ramayamma, the Zamindarini of Gollaprolu (hereinafter called the Rani ... after an elaborate trial decreed the suit in October, 1920, declaring the adoption to be invalid. While an appeal against that decree preferred
dated May 26, 1903. At this time the Eaja was contemplating the adoption of the respondent, who was the son of his cousin, Bhupatindra Bikram ... sought and obtained, and both Courts in India have found that the adoption was duly made on May 31, 1903. Their Lordships accept this finding
presumptive reversioner, in suing for and obtaining a decree declaring the adoption of the first defendant as son to Krishna Brahmam made by his widow ... thereto who takes only a qualified interest, and, (2) those relating to adoption by widow.
3. Taking up the former, in Tekant Doorga Persad Singh
Will-Constyuction-Disposition to adopted son, R--Adoption
invalid-Whether R takes Property as persona designata. Deed-
Construction-Trust, Whether created-Language of deed
ambiguous ... acute differences
which arose between them later, he made a second adoption of
the first appellant in 1926 on the footing that such an
adoption
agreement.
The agreement for arbitration having specifically stated
that the consequences of adoption or non-adoption were to be
decided by the arbitrators, they rightly ... laid down what was
to happen if the adoption did not take place owing to the
default of either party, imposing a time limit
widow died in 1902. The defendants relied on long possession under an adoption made by the widow in 1862 and pleaded that the suit ... Chokkammal adopted one Alagasundara, a younger brother of her deceased husband. This adoption was afterwards impeached on the ground that Alagasundara was not given