Lindamulage Deepthi Lalitha De Silva vs Ranaweeraarachchige Seetin – CA 131/96-2013

In the case between Lindamulage Deepthi Lalitha De Silva (plaintiff/respondent) and Ranaweeraarachchige Seetin (defendant/appellant), the court addressed whether Deed No. 14889, dated 18 March 1985, effected a valid conveyance of title to the plaintiff or constituted a conditional transfer serving merely as security for a loan, and whether the defendant was entitled to assert prescriptive title to the land. The holding established that the deed’s plain terms could not be altered, contradicted, or supplemented by oral evidence, as the defendant’s contentions did not fall within the limited exceptions permitted by Sections 91 and 92 of the Evidence Ordinance. The decision confirmed that an acknowledgment of the plaintiff’s title prevented the defendant from maintaining a claim to prescriptiv