The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday August 1 1927

Their Lordships definitely lay down that the natural father loses all power over the son from the moment when he is adopted and the adopted son has in his new family precisely the same rights as a natural son save only when the question is one that raises a competition between the natural and the adopted son and the agreement made by the natural father with the adoptive..father to curtail the rig [...] The fallacy involved in arguing in support of the legality of the pre-adoption arrafigement on the latter consideration is that the arrangment holds good only when the position of affairs in the family of the adoptive father is that the adopted son is fully a member of that family clothed with all the rights of a natural born son whose connections with his natural father have been totally seve [...] The law on the subject in question is stated by their Lordships to be that pre-adoption arrangments affecting the rights of the adopted son consented to by the natural father perhaps from the best of motives solely with a view to better the prospects of the son to be given away in adoption are contrary to the strict and natural view of Hindu law and there is no test which sanctions them. [...] Cosidering that the theory if adopted will have the effect of transferring big practices from the legal to the medical profession the doctors must not 'complain if many regard this new theory with an unfriendly eye and even regard it as evidenoeof a deep conspiracy to rob the criminal lawyer of his livelihood Meanwhile the men of law realise that even assuming the correctness of the medi [...] Held—ti) That the liability to pay rent being joint and several the landlord could recover the veiohit rent from any one of the tenants and beagle The appeal did not abate by reason of the death of one of the Respondents pending the apeal.