10. Section 19 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor: "
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| | (1) Every District Court shall be a court of record and shall within its district have unlimited original jurisdiction in all civil revenue, trust, matrimonial, insolvency and testamentary matters, save and except such of the aforesaid matters as are by or under this Act or by virtue of the provisions of any other enactment exclusively assigned by way of original jurisdiction to any other court of vested in any other authority and In the exercise of such jurisdiction to impose fines, penalties and forfeitures and shall in fake manner also have jurisdiction over the persons and estates of persons of unsound mind, minors and wards, over the estates of cocstuis que trust and over guardians and trustees and in any other matter in which jurisdiction is given to District Courts by law.", | | |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts