W.A. Niluka Nilmini and W.A.Premaratna vs Arunawathie Dahanayaka and R.B.T.Chandrasiri – CA 04/97F-2012

In the case between Arunawathie Dahanayaka (Plaintiff-Respondent) and W.A. Niluka Nilmini and W.A. Premaratna (2nd and 4th Defendant-Appellants), the central issue involved the division of a 138-perch land pursuant to a partition action. The dispute concentrated on whether the district judge erred in excluding the benefit of deed 2D2 to the appellants and the proportional allocation of undivided shares in the corpus. It was determined that the distribution of shares based on the interpretation of several deeds, especially deed 2D2, was not in accordance with proper legal principles. The principle reaffirmed is that, in partition actions, due effect must be given to all valid conveyances, with precedence assigned by the temporal priority and validity of the deeds in question. The findings r