Lord Salvesen.-

These are two consolidated appeals from a judgment and two decrees dated 13th November 1922, of the High Court of Judicature at Madras. It is unnecessary to re-state the prior procedure or judgments which dealt with a number of contentions in law, and questions of fact now either finally disposed of or no longer insisted upon. It is sufficient to say that when leave to appeal was granted by the order of the High Court of 19th April 1923, it was on the specific ground that it raised the substantial question of law, namely,

whether an adoption of a son by a Hindu made after the execution and delivery of a deed of gift, but before registration thereof, renders a deed void as against the adopted son.

This is the only ground of appeal which is set forth in the appellant's case, and the respondents in their case, paragraph 2, take up the same position. Although, therefore, other grounds were indicated in the argument addressed to the Board which might have been equally fatal to the appeal, their Lordships think it right, in all the circumstances, to deal only with that which was the ground of judgment of the High Court, and in respect of which leave to appeal was given.

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