Premaratne and Another v. Amaradasa and Others – sllr 2004 volume 1 page 174

In the case between Premaratne and Another (Plaintiff-Appellants) and Amaradasa and Others (Defendant-Respondents), the court addressed whether a surveyor may provide access to partitioned land via a right-of-way situated outside the corpus and whether the partition scheme adequately ensured internal access to a public road as required by law. It was held that rights-of-way for partition purposes must be situated within the corpus in accordance with established statutory requirements and judicial precedent, such as Amarasinghe v Wanigasuriya, Kanthia v Sinnethamby, and Thambiah v Sinnathamby. The findings established that the plan endorsed by the Commissioner, which allocated a 20-foot-wide private road lying outside the partition corpus, did not satisfy the legal standard for lawful acces