Athuraliya Balasuriyage Robert Walter Peiris vs Amarasinghe Arachchige Dharmadasa Amarasinghe – CA NO. 1066/2000 F -2017

In the case between Athuraliya Balasuriyage Robert Walter Peiris (Plaintiff/Appellant) and Amarasinghe Arachchige Dharmadasa Amarasinghe (represented by Amarasinghe Arachchige Seetha Ranjanie Amarasinghe) and Henry Perera Abeysinghe (substituted by Abeysinghe Arachchchige Pushpakanthi Abeysinghe and Abeysinghe Arachchchige Dunstan Perera Abeysinghe) (Defendants/Respondents), the court was called upon to determine whether the land known as Nagahawatta alias Nagahalanda (1 Acre and 11 perches) constituted a distinct, partitionable corpus or formed part of a larger land (Nagahalanda, 9 acres 3 roods and 38 perches), thus impacting the Plaintiff’s entitlement to partition. The central legal questions included the correct identification of the corpus, its putative separate existence, and the su