Ex parte Chambers

Citations

• 80 Cal. 216
• 22 P. 138
• 1889 Cal. LEXIS 892

Syllabus

<p>Adoption — Orphan Asylum—Jurisdiction op Superior Court.—An orphan, child who has for the period of one year been supported wholly at the expense of an orphan asylum cannot be legally adopted by a husband and wife by decree of a superior court, without the consent of the managers of the orphan asylum, given in the same -manner that parents are authorized to consent to the adoption of their children, as provided by the act of April I, 1878. That act does not repeal or amend any part of the Civil Code, but provides for the adoption of a class of minor children not provided for by the code. The power to adopt minor children is a creation of the statute, and the mode prescribed by statute is the measure of the power and jurisdiction of the court to decree an adoption.</p>