Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsCivil jurisdiction
| 26. A District Court shall within its district have original jurisdiction in all civil, revenue, matrimonial, insolvency and testamentary matters, except such of the aforesaid matters as are by this or any other written law exclusively assigned by way of original jurisdiction to any other court or vested in any other authority, and shall, in like manner, also have jurisdiction over the persons and estates of persons of unsound mind, minors, and wards, over the estates of cestuis que trust, and over guardians and trustees, and in any other matter in which jurisdiction may hereafter be given to District Courts by law. |