Gotabhaya Upali Wickramasinghe Ravindra Disna vs Werakkodi Arachchige Mary Nona – SC/APPEAL/128/2012-2025

In the case between Gotabhaya Upali Wickramasinghe (1st Defendant-Appellant) and Mohamed Hanifa Ummu Raseena (Plaintiff-Respondent), the court addressed whether an interlocutory decree in a partition action may be entered when a party has acquired prescriptive title to a part of the land and the appropriate partition method for distinct portions under prescriptive possession and contractual conveyance. It was held that, upon establishing prescriptive title to an identifiable portion (excluding building No.1), further partition is unnecessary for that portion and it should be excluded from the corpus in the decree. This position reaffirmed the principle that the interlocutory decree acts as a final and conclusive determination under the Partition Law, specifically Sections 26(2)(d), 26(2)(f