Adopted children have the right of inheritance from their adopting parents to the same extent as natural children; they cannot, however, inherit through

1 Am. & Eng. Ency. of Law, Vol. I, p. 726. Adoption is the taking into one's family a child of another as son and heir, conferring on it a title to the privileges and rights of a natural child. An act, in other words, by which a person appoints as his heir the child of another.

Abney vs. De Laach, 84 Ala., 393. Adoption is the legal act whereby an adult person takes a minor into the relation of child and thereby acquires the rights and incurs the responsibility of a parent in respect to such minor. (N. Y. State, 1873, C. 830.) such adopting parents. Adopted children, also, retain their right to inherit from their natural parents. Adopting parents cannot inherit from their adopted children except property which such adopted children had previously received from them.