Hindu Law and Custom (Recht und Sitte) c7.748

c7.748

(partial adoption) as in the case of the Kṛtrima son of the Smṛtis who is of course mentioned only by a section of the ancient authors and is mostly declared as no longer in vogue by the later jurists, but in Mithilā (Tirhut, the home of Y. who in 2, 131 defines the Kṛtrima to be a son adopted by somebody on his own accouut—according to the Mit. an orphan is meant by this term whom the adoptiye father induces to let himself be adopted by holding out to him prospects of pecuniary advantage) the Kṛtrima is still officially recognised. There this kind of adoption takes place in this way: the adoptandus has himself adopted into another family as a son entitled to inheritance simply by declaring his wish to do so and at the same time retains his rights in his own family; thus everybody, without distinction of age or family, may be adopted in this formless manner only if he is a member of the same caste¹.