Weerasinghe Arachchige Premadasa vs Hetti Arachchige Sepali Wickremaratne – CA NO. 1117/2000 F-2013

The case between Weerasinghe Arachchige Premadasa (Plaintiff/Appellant) and Hetti Arachchige Sepali Wickremaratne, Weerasinghe Arachchige Ariyadasa, Piyadasa Wijesiri Gunawardena, and Weerasinghe Arachchige Lili (Defendants/Respondents) addressed whether the Plaintiff was entitled to partition of certain land based on alleged title derived from previous owners and prescriptive possession. It was determined that the Plaintiff failed to establish prescriptive title or the requisite chain of title, and thus did not discharge the burden of proof. The decision reaffirmed the principle that the burden to prove prescriptive title lies with the party asserting it. This outcome relied on evidentiary standards and established legal principles regarding prescriptive title, emphasizing that appeals ch