Ballard v. Ward
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county: Of January Term 1877, No. 64. Ejectment by H. C. Ward, Henry Ward and Ellen Ward Miller against E, L. Ballard and Elizabeth his wife. • It appeared from the evidence that in 1869, C. L. Ward bought the property in dispute from William Hoffman, for $3000, paying $1000 on account. In May 1870, he died intestate, leaving a widow, H. O. Ward and two children, Henry Ward and Ellen Ward Miller.
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Error to the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford county: Of January Term 1877, No. 64. Ejectment by H. C. Ward, Henry Ward and Ellen Ward Miller against E, L. Ballard and Elizabeth his wife. • It appeared from the evidence that in 1869, C. L. Ward bought the property in dispute from William Hoffman, for $3000, paying $1000 on account. In May 1870, he died intestate, leaving a widow, H. O. Ward and two children, Henry Ward and Ellen Ward Miller. Letters of administration were taken out by the widow, who paid the remaining $2000 on the property, and had the deed therefor made from Hoffman to…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Sharswoojd
Adoption in the Roman law was an act by which a person undertook to rear the child of another, and appoint such child as his heir. The Eleventh Title of the first book of the Institutes of Justinian is “De Adoptionibus,” and the first placitum of that title declares that “ adoption is made two ways, either by imperial rescript or authority of the magistrate. The imperial rescript empowers us to adopt persons of either sex who are sui juris, and this species of adoption is called arrogation. But it is by the authority of the magistrate that we adopt persons actually under the power of their…
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