Kehelwattage Podi Singho Sunil Premawardane vs Bibile Manage Chandrawathy et al. – SC APPEAL 161/2016-2023

Brief
In the case between Kehelwattege Podi Singho Sunil Premawardane (plaintiff-appellant-respondent) and several defendants and respondents in a partition action concerning the property “Getagoyawe Hena,” the court addressed the proper identification of the land in dispute and the validity of claims of prescriptive title advanced by the 4th to 7th defendant-respondents. It was held that the land had been accurately identified by the High Court, and the appellants had not substantiated a prescriptive title to any portion of the corpus. The decision reaffirmed the principle that claims of prescriptive title in partition actions require clear, overt acts of adverse possession substantiated by evidence. Recourse was made to established legal standards governing issues of title and partition,