Sattambiralalage Don Felix Pinsiri Chandana Aresecularatne v. Madanakonda Achiralalage Don Lucian Anthony Aresecularatne, et al. – CA CASE NO. 572/2000-2000

In the case between Sattambiralalage Don Felix Pinsiri Chandana Aresecularatne (Plaintiff-Appellant) and Madanakonda Achiralalage Don Lucian Anthony Aresecularatne, Madanakonda Achiralalage Don Romesh Lushantha Aresecularatne, and others (Defendant-Respondents), the central issue concerned whether the District Judge misapplied the Roman Dutch Law doctrine of community of property by incorrectly allotting a 1/12th share of property to the 6th Defendant rather than to the Plaintiff. The key dispute arose from claims to property devolving from an 1861 fiscal conveyance, the implications of servitudes on a well, and the allocation of specific property improvements. The court held that the District Judge erred, as the 1/12th share had passed out of the original family line by fiscal sale under