'vyawasrhrpahpaNa. чаи with a damsel unequal in class being prohibited at this shak) age, and consequently the son born of moh a woman not being entitled to inherit, and the heritable right of the son of a female slave being repugnant to the immemorial custom of this country, such right of a slidrodatsats, founded as it is on the ground of the right of the son of a female slave, cannot be deemed valid. As to the texts of Mass and Jágoyapalya, cited as anthorities for the heritable right of the son of a female slave, they are applicable to schools other than that of Bengal, where they are repugnant to immemorial custom, which, according to the text: “the ordiances of titles are of equal authority with the Woda,” and that of Mass: “Immemorial custom is the transcendant law," ka, wherever it obtains, supersedes the general marima of the law*-Consequently, the practice of the good sidras of this country being like that of the regenerate classes, the right. of a shēdradattaka must here be held to be the same as that of one of a twice-born class. 593. The dataka son is entitled to succeed to his adoptive mother's property, Wyouth just as to that of his adoptive father's.f For he is son not only to the adoptive father, but also to the adoptive mothert Reason, Legal opinions delivered in, and admitled ty, the several courts of judicature, and examined and approved of by Sir William Macnaghten. Q. Is a son given (datata, entitled to inherit from his natural father? R. A given son has no right to succeed to his natural parents, as Manu says: "A given son A son given (dattamust never claim the family and estate of his natural father. The funeral cake follows the ka) :: not hin family and estate; but of him, who has given away his son, the obsequies fail” own father's property, Zillai $hahabad, May 18th, 1816.-Maon, H, L. vol. II. Ch. VI. Case 9, p. 188, Q 2. If a disputs arise between an adopted son and his adopting mother, and, to decide An 斷 ted souma it, the adopted son execute ment of the following purport, that his mother is to remain lawfully bind hi
- on the following condition, that—should any serious difference occur between his mother and him- one; tı, :
- 编 角,影 & * ;A • 's death self, he is to lose all his rights and his adoption to be held void; does such ಹಿಂಉಲ್ಲಕ್ಕಿ on the ಕ್ಲ y ii of any difference between them, consor a legal right on the mother to disinheritshe :ു. adopted son? B. z. Under the circumstances stated, mch agreement does confer the right alluded to on the mother; because the owner of any possessions may dispose of them as he pleases. సీ opinion is conformable to the Dáysłówa, rրաանա, Vivédérsova-tets, and other • 8* am*, pp. 21,800, siâ 305. * веньи ши, ыкм. 91
