Jayasinghe Arachchige Thilakeratne v. Jayasinghe Arachchige Wijesena and others – SC APPEAL 82/2020-2022

In the case between Jayasinghe Arachchige Thilakeratne (plaintiff-respondent-petitioner) and various defendant-respondents including heirs such as the 8th defendant, the court addressed the proper identification and division of the land known as Innawatta. The primary legal issues concerned whether the land demarcated in the preliminary plan accurately represented the property described in the ancient title deeds and the plaint, as well as the correct conversion of traditional Sinhala land measurements into English units. Additionally, the Court considered the legal impact of the registration of lis pendens and the effect of deeds executed before and after such registration under the Partition Law. It was held that the preliminary plan correctly depicted the property to be partitioned, and