Edirisinghe Arachchige Chandrasiri Edirisinghe vs. Edirisinghege Dayawathie Edirisinghe – SC/APPEAL/245/2014-2024

In the case between Edirisinghe Arachchige Chandrasiri Edirisinghe (plaintiff, represented by substitute) and the 1st defendant, Edirisinghe Arachchige Wijetunge Menike, among others, the court addressed the issue of proper identification of the corpus in a partition action concerning the land known as Gederawatte alias Kospelawatte. The central dispute focused on whether the land described in the plaint was in fact a single parcel or comprised two separate lands with overlapping descriptions. The court held that the corpus was not properly identified due to inconsistencies and irreconcilable differences in the evidence, especially in boundaries and extents cited in the relevant deeds and survey reports. This decision reaffirmed the legal principle that identification of the corpus is fund