Ranminipura Dewage Hemathunga & others v. Ranminipura Dewage Agoris & others – SC APPEAL NO.107/10-2017

In the case between the Kamburadeniya Kekanadeniya Co-operative Society and associated Plaintiffs (including P. Wijesiriwardena and R.M. Karunaratne) and the Defendant-Respondent-Appellants (including Amarasinghe Mudiyanselage Sarathchandra and associated parties), the court addressed whether lots 3 and 4 in Preliminary Plan “X” should be included in the land corpus to be partitioned or excluded as forming a separate property, Hitina Watta, as contended by the Defendants. The court held that lots 1 to 5 should be included in the corpus for partition, reaffirming the principle that boundaries described in plaint schedules, deeds, and survey plans must be construed in light of the totality of the evidence and statutory requirements under the Partition Act. This decision relied on a detailed