Re Estate of SUNDARA, Deceased.

RANKIRI, Petitioner.

UKKU, Administratrix, Respondent.

D. C, Kandy, 2,061 (Testamentary).

Kandyan Law-Acquired property of deceased intestate-Right thereto of illegitimate children-Rights of widow and sister of deceased.

    The Kandyan Law does not distinguish between illegitimate children born in adultery and merely natural children.
If there be no widow and legitimate children, the illegitimate children succeed to the whole of the acquired property of the father, movable and immovable.

    Mahatmaya v. Banda, 2 S. C. R. 142, approved.

    It is not all offspring of casual intercourse that are so entitled to succeed, but only those illegitimate children who have been publicly acknowledged by their father or born in his house under circumstances showing an act of open recognition of cohabitation with their mother.

    If there be a widow and a sister of the deceased intestate, besides illegitimate children, his ancestral lands devolve on the sister, and the widow has a life interest in the acquired lands.

    THIS was an application by one Rankiri, sister of the above-named Sundara, deceased, for a judici