The Indian Decisions (New Series) Being a re-print of all the decisions of the Privy Council on appeals from India and of the various High Courts and other Superior Courts in India reported both in the official and non-official reports from 1875 Bombay (1878-1880) I.L.R. 3 and 4 Bombay

The residence of the minor with the adoptive parents is a part of the consideration, for their adoption of a son, and unless serious ill-treatment or incompetency on their part be proved, they and the survivor of them are the proper guardians. [...] The payments made to the holders of chirda, after the cessation of the service, were, therefore, voluntIty, and the principle of . the High Court's decisions applies to the present case. [...] The latter ought, we think, in order to have. escaped from the effect of the decree and judgments, to hive given proof of some subsequent alteration in the rights of the parties : as, for instance, of an assignment or release by the plaintiffs of their rights, or of some other circumstance which divested them of those rights, or the defendants of their liability—as, for example, an alienation, by t [...] It being admitted by the 'defendant's pleader that there is not any evidgnce showing a variation of the rights of the parties as they stood under the decree and judgments in evidence on behalf sof the plaintiffs, we reverse the decree of the District Judge and restore that of the Subordinate Judge, and direct the defendants to pay to the plaintiffs the costs of the suit and of both appeals. [...] I have pointed out to-day in the presence of yourself [the Second Class MagiStrate] and the Punch the sand-heap in which they bad buried them, and taken them out and given them up before the Punch. " The circumstances under which the confession, the substance of which is given above, took place, where thus deposed to by the police pat. ( of Bhaveleri, the village where the murder is alleged to have