Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts

Partition Law (No. 21 of 1977)

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.	   Short title and date of operation  
   2.	   Institution of partition action  
   3.	   Appropriate court  
   4.	   Requisites of plaint  
   5.	   Necessary parties  
   6.	   Application for registration of action as a lis pendens to be filed with plaint  
   7.	   Failure to comply with provisions of section 4, 5 or 6  
   8.	   Procedure on acceptance of the plaint  
   9.	   Failure to deposit estimated coats of preliminary survey  
   10.	   Determination of actual costs of preliminary survey  
   11.	   Registrar of Lands to report to court registration of partition action as a lis pendens  
   12.	   Declaration by attorney-at-law and papers to be filed with such declaration  
   13.	   Issue of summons  
   14.	   Service of summons  
   15.	   Public notice of institution of partition action  
   16.	   Commission to survey land  
   17.	   survey  
   18.	   Return to surveyor's commission  
   19.	   Statements of claims; disclosure of mortgages and leases ; disputes as to corpus  
   20.	   Notice of partition action to persons disclosed  
   21.	   Issue of copies of plaint and statements of claims to parties  
   22.	   Failure to produce material documents of title at trial  
   23.	   List of documents  
   24.	   Calling case to fix date of trial  
   25.	   Trial  
   26.	   interlocutory decree  
   27.	   Commission for division of land into lots, or for sale or partition  
   28.	   Form of commission  
   29.	   Costs of commission  
   30.	   Execution of commission for partition  
   31.	   Scheme of partition  
   32.	   Return to commission  
   33.	   Manner of partition  
   34.	   Compensation and owelty  
   35.	   Date for consideration of scheme of partition  
   36.	   Final decree of partition  
   37.	   Consideration of scheme for division of land into lots  
   38.	   Valuation of land  
   39.	   Conditions of sale, &c  
   40.	   Notice of sale  
   41.	   Sale  
   42.	   Return to court  
   43.	   Deposit of purchase money  
   44.	   Objections to sale  
   45.	   Confirmation of sale  
   46.	   Certificate of sale  
   47.	   Distribution and withdrawal of money to court  
   48.	   Finality of Interlocutory and final decrees of partition  
   49.	   Action for damage by person who is not a party to partition action  
   50.	   Lease or mortgage of undivided share  
   51.	   Registration of interlocutory decree, final decree and certificate of sale  
   52.	   Delivery of possession of land to parties and purchasers  
   53.	   Power of court to enforce it's decrees and orders and to deal with offences of contempt of court  
   54.	   Rights of person owning plantation apart from soil  
   55.	   Partition of land belonging to partnership  
   56.	   Executors and administrators  
   57.	   Recoverable costs  
   58.	   Costs recoverable by attorney-at-law  
   59.	   Costs of contest  
   60.	   Costs of proving title of defaulting party  
   61.	   One set of costs for parties jointly interested  
   62.	   Security for costs for unreasonable delay  
   63.	   Costs under sections 57 and 60 to be a charge on share of party  
   64.	   Costs in cases not expressly provided for  
   65.	   Default in paying costs and charges in previous action under this Law  
   66.	   Sale, lease or mortgage pendente lite is void  
   67.	   Appeals  
   68.	   Proof of deeds  
   69.	   Addition of parties  
   70.	   Non prosecution of partition action  
   71.	   Penalty for dishonest non-disclosure of interested persons  
   72.	   Penalty for false return &c., by surveyor  
   73.	   List of surveyors  
   74.	   Exemption from stamp duty  
   75.	   Dismissal of partition action  
   76.	   Power of court to postpone, adjourn or to give extensions of time  
   77.	   Service of process  
   78.	   Powers and duties of Fiscal  
   79.	   Casus omissus  
   80.	   Forms  
   81.	   Representation of deceased party or co-owner  
   82.	   Transitional provisions  
   83.	   Interpretation