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HALL v. VALLANDINGHAM

No. 1278, September Term, 1987.

75 Md. App. 187 (1988)

540 A.2d 1162

EVA C. HALL ET AL. v. JOSEPH W. VALLANDINGHAM, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM MARTIN VALLANDINGHAM, JR.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 9, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas F. Mudd (Mudd, Mudd & Fitzgerald, P.A., on the brief), La Plata, for appellants.

No Brief or Appearance by Appellee's Counsel.

Argued Before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and WENNER, JJ.

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

Adoption did not exist under the common law of England,1 although it was in use "[a]mong the ancient peoples of Greece, Rome, Egypt and Babylonia." M. Leary and R. Weinberg, Law of Adoption (4th Ed. 1979) 1; Lord Mackenzie, Studies in Roman Law, 130-34 (3rd ed. 1870); American and English Encyclopaedia of Law (1887) 204, n. 9. The primary purpose for adoption was, and still is, inheritance rights...

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