KULENDOEVELOE v. KANDEPERUMAL.

Present: Sir Charles Peter Layard, Chief Justice, and
Mr. Justice Grenier.

KULENDOEVELOE v. KANDEPERUMAL.

D. C., Batticaloa, 2,496.

Claim by administrator-Prescription-English law of Executors and Administrators-3 and 4 William IV., c. 27, s. 6-Ordinance No. 22 of 1871.

In Ceylon prescription begins to run against an administrator claiming property on behalf of the estate from the date of the grant of letters of administration and not from the date of the death of
the intestate.

Statute 3 and i William IV., c. 27, s. 6, is not in force in Ceylon.

THE facts and arguments sufficiently appear in the judgment of Layard C.J.

Walter Pereira, K.C. (with him Tambimuttu), for the defendant, appellant.

Bawa (with him Wadsworth), for the plaintiff, respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

19th May, 1905. LAYARD C.J-

In this case the appellant's counsel points out that the plaint alleges that in the month of September, 1895, shortly after the death of the plaintiff's intestate, the defendant took wrongful possession of certain property belonging to the intestate's estate, and that the administrator of the intestate's estate did not bring this action

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