1. The plaintiff, a minor, through his next friend his natural father brought the present suit for the recovery of certain properties stated to have vested in him by virtue of his having been adopted to one Rengaswami Aiyer deceased, by his widow, the 1st defendant. The Subordinate Judge gave a decree to the plaintiff practically as prayed for. In the present appeal by the 1st defendant no question is raised as to the plaintiffs adoption. The dispute here relates only to the properties specified in schedule II to Exhibit I, dated 30th December 1893, executed by the 1st defendant on the day of the adoption in proof of it and setting forth the terms and arrangements as to the enjoyment of the property, of the adoptive father as between the plaintiff and the 1st defendant and whereby the property described in the said II schedule to the instrument was in the event of disagreement between the plaintiff and the 1st defendant, to be enjoyed by the 1st defendant for her life and subsequent to her death to be taken by the plaintiff. The permission by the 1st defendants husband in pursuance of which the adoption of the plaintiff took place was oral and it appears to have merely enabled