Ward v. Howard

Since early days, tbe attitude of tbe North Carolina Court toward tbe law of real estate, descent and inheritance, and distribution, has been classic. Tbe result has been an -exactness and a certainty with respect to this subject that gave to tbe decisions of tbe Court a very extended reputation.

Out of this legal atmosphere came tbe Adoption Law of 1872, and particularly that portion of our law existing at tbe time- tbe adoption proceeding under consideration was bad — chapter 2, section 184, Consolidated Statutes of 1919 — which fixes tbe most important of tbe conditions upon which adoption…