398 CHANCERY. [ART. 16

1892, oh. 244, sec. 62 B.

60. The husband and wife may file a petition jointly praying
the court to decree the adoption by them jointly of any child,
but no decree of adoption shall pass where the petitioner is a
married person unless it be shown that the husband or wife of
the petitioner consents to the adoption, or is hopelessly insane,
or that the parties are living apart under such circumstances as
would entitle the petitioner to a divorce.

Ibid, sec. 62c.

70. The effect of such decree of adoption shall be to entitle
the child so adopted to the same rights of inheritance and dis-
tribution as to the petitioner's estate, and the same rights of
protection, education and maintenance as if born to such peti-
tioner in lawful wedlock, and the natural parents of such child
shall be freed from all legal obligation towards it, provided that
where such child inherits property from its adopted parent or
parents, upon its dying intestate without issue the property
thus inherited shall descend and be distributed to the same
persons who would take the same by inheritance and in course
of distribution if the child had been the child of the adopted
parents born to them in lawful wedlock; provided, however, that
this shall not be construed to limit or interfere with the power
of disposition over such property by gift, grant, devise, bequest
or otherwise by said adopted child.

Ibid. sec. 62 D.

71. If the petition contains a prayer to that effect the court
may also decree that the name of the child be changed.

Ibid. sec. 62 E.

72. The term "child " or its equivalent in a deed, grant, will
or other written instrument shall be held to include any child
adopted by the person executing the same, unless the contrary
plainly appears by the term thereof, whether such instrument
be executed before or after the adoption.

Ibid. sec. 62 F.

73. Any inhabitant of any other State adopted as a child in
accordance with the laws thereof shall upon proof of such fact
be entitled in this State to the same rights of inheritance and
distribution as he or she would have enjoyed in the State where
adopted except in so far as they may conflict with the provisions
of the five preceding sections.