Jayasinghepura Devayalage Gunasekera Timber Stores vs. Jayasinghe Pura Devayalage Premawathi et al. – CA NO:886/97 F -1997

In the case between Jayasinghepura Devayalage Gunasekera (Plaintiff-Appellant) and Jayasinghe Pura Devayalage Premawathi, Jayasinghe Pura Devayalage Karunawathi, among other Defendant-Respondents, the court addressed the issue of entitlement and shares to a land known as “Rukgahamulakotuwe Watte.” The court held that the Defendant-Respondents had not discharged the legal burden to establish exclusive title against the interests of all co-owners, nor had they proven ouster or acquired title by prescription. It was established that daughters who married after their father’s death under the Kandyan Law did not forfeit their inheritance rights. The judgment reaffirmed the principle that a claim of prescription among co-owners requires clear evidence of ouster and exclusive possession, drawing