Abeyratne v. Rosalin – sllr 2001 volume 3 page 308

In the case of Abeyratne (Plaintiff) v. Rosalin (Defendant), the court addressed the issue of whether transferee defendants who acquired rights after the institution of a partition action could be added as parties and awarded undivided shares in the corpus under Section 67 of the Partition Law. It was held that such transferees, lacking an interest at the commencement of the action, did not possess the requisite legal standing to be joined as parties or to receive an allotment of shares via judgment or interlocutory decree. Reaffirming the principle that only those with an actual legal interest at the institution of the suit may be added as parties, the decision emphasized the limitations imposed by the Partition Law on introducing subsequent transferees. The findings relied on statutory i