Koralage v. Marikkar Mohamed and Others – sllr 1988 volume 2 page 299

In the case between Koralage (Plaintiff) and Marikkar Mohamed & Others (Defendants), involving an intervening party challenging the validity of a partition decree, the court addressed whether a revision or restitutio in integrum application could succeed on allegations of procedural irregularity under the Partition Act. It was held that statutory requirements regarding the exhibition of notices, publication, oral proclamation, and the furnishing of surveyor’s reports had been duly observed, and that no fundamental procedural defect or vice existed to warrant overturning the judgment. The principle reaffirmed is that finality attaches to properly entered interlocutory decrees in partition actions when statutory and procedural requirements are met. This decision relied on the evaluation of t