how is it that you allowed the inheritance to be adjudicated to our brotherThe permission of the court was necessary when the heir was a son adopted by will and not by the deceased in his lifetime. without the disposal of the legitimate daughter whom you say our uncle left behind him? Did you not know that by the demand that the estate should be adjudicated an attempt was being made to bastardize your niece? For, when he claimed to have the estate adjudicated to him, he thereby sought to bastardize the daughter of him who left the estate.