Estate of Maughan

Allen, Ch. J.:

By the judgment of the majority of the Court articles of adoption have not the effect of making the adopted child an heir.

The appellant was adopted as the child of Hannah Maughan by the articles of agreement as follows, viz.:

“Articles of agreement made and concluded this twenty-seventh day of August, 'A. D. 1855, between Moewale, the father and only surviving parent of Pauahi, a female child about thirteen years old, and Hannah Maughan, of Honolulu, witnesseth: That the said Moewale does hereby give unto the said Hannah Maughan, his child, the said Pauahi, to be adopted by her…