Reports of Cases Heard and Determined by the Judicial Committee and the Lords of Her Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council on appeal from the Supreme and Sudder Dewanny Courts in the East Indies 1846-1850

P. Cherry Second Judge ) were of opinion that the real question in the case was the right of succession to the vahee or district in quetion part of the Zemindary of the late Veneatadry ; and there being an informality in the petition of plaint it having omitted to set out the names of the villages proceedings against Ramanadha (who was a"ON APPEAL FROM THE EAST INDIES. [...] Upon the receipt of the above opinions the Provicial Court recorded the following resolution :- " The Court meeting in the above opinions with adequate grounds for recognising Ramanadha the - second adopted son of the late Vencatadry as a claimant to a moiety of the estate left by that Zemidar the whole of which has been claimed by the elder adopted son Jaganadha —It is resolved that [...] nadha for the recovery of the entire estate of the late yizganadha proceeded as follows :—" The Sudder Court do not consider that Ramanadha ought in equity to be prejudiced by the withdrawal of his Appeal from the decree of the Provincial Court which act appears to have been done under an errneous impression othe legal consequences resulting to him from the death of the late.7aganadha [...] He also insisted on the invalidity of any adoption out of the common gotrums of both parties ; and stated the Chavavar to be a family so far inferior to that of the Vassareddy-var as not to permit of alliances being contracted between them ; he also traversed the aleged communication by Yaganadha of the adoption to the authorities insisting on the natural inference arising out of the noncomm [...] The right of adoption is a sacred one among the Hindoos ; it is of a spiritual nature ; and the Hindoo law is very pointed as to the reasons and object of adoption and declares it to be for the sake of the performance of the funeral rites of a man having no male issue and to perpetuate his name ; inheritance follows of course but it is a seconary consideration.