Leslin Jayasinghe v. Illangaratne – sllr 2006 volume 2 page 039

Brief
The case between Leslin Jayasinghe (Plaintiff/Respondent) and Illangaratne with the 6th Defendant as Appellant addressed the issue of entitlement and partition of a disputed land, including the validity of competing titles and claims of prescriptive rights. The court held that the Appellant had failed to establish a superior title or prescriptive rights to the land in question, and the findings of the trial judge rejecting the appellant’s deed, chain of title, and claim of prescriptive possession were upheld. The principle reaffirmed was that issues including the proof of pedigree, due execution and formalities of deeds, and sufficiency of evidence in support of prescriptive title must be strictly satisfied by the party asserting a superior claim. Reliance was placed on the Registrat