Hewa Pedige Chandrasena vs Arachchilage Podinilame – CA LL10/96-2021

In the case between Hewa Pedige Sediris (Substituted Plaintiff-Respondent, for original Plaintiff Hewa Pedige Chandrasena) and Renapana Arachchilage Champa Janaki Kumari Renapana (Substituted Defendant-Appellant, for original Defendant Arachchilage Podinilame), the court addressed the issues of entitlement to declaration of title, ejectment from land, and whether the Defendant had acquired prescriptive title under the Prescription Ordinance. The court determined that evidence established the Defendant’s uninterrupted, adverse possession for over ten years, satisfying the requirements for prescriptive title and rendering the Plaintiff’s action prescribed. The principle reaffirmed is that continuous, exclusive, and adverse possession beyond the statutory period vests prescriptive title under