Somawathie vs Madawela and Others – sllr 1983 volume 2 page 015

In the case between Somawathie (Plaintiff) and Madawela (Defendant), the issue concerned whether a deed conveying a specified but imprecisely described block actually transferred an undivided share, as well as the finality and correctness of interlocutory and final partition decrees under the Partition Act—including compliance failures in procedural requirements, omissions of necessary parties, and court powers to grant revisionary remedies. It was held that a deed describing a block with insufficiently clear boundaries is to be construed as passing only an undivided interest. The findings established that, despite statutory presumptions of finality for partition decrees, the Court possesses authority to exercise its revisionary powers and grant restitutio in integrum where procedural defe