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| (1) A court exercising jurisdiction in a partition action shall have full power to give effect to every order or decree made or entered in the action (including the power to order delivery of possession of any land or portion of land to any person entitled thereto) and to punish as for contempt of court any person who-
| | (a) disobeys any such order, or | | |
| | (b) obstructs or resists any person acting under the authority of the court or exercising any power conferred on him by this Law, or | | |
| | (c) damages, destroys or removes, during the pendency of the action, any boundary mark which under section 31, has been made or set up on the land to which the action relates. | | |
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| (2) Where, under subsection (1) of this section., a person is convicted of obstructing or resisting a surveyor engaged, under the authority of the court, in doing any work on a land, the court may, in addition to the imposition of any punishment on that person under that subsection, order him to pay an amount determined by the court as the expenses of the surveyor if in consequence of the obstruction or resistance it Is necessary for the surveyor to proceed again to such land for the purpose of doing such work. Any amount ordered by the court under this subsection to be paid by any person may be recovered as though that amount were a fine imposed on that person by the court. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts