Present : Sir Joseph T. Hutchinson, Chief Justice, and
Mr. Justice Wendt.

RANHAMI v. MENIK ETANA.

D. C, Kandy, 17,396.

Kandyan Law-Rights of illegitimate children-acquired property- Rights of mother and brother and sisters.

    Where a Kandyan died intestate leaving him surviving his mother, and brother and sisters, and an illegitimate child,-
    Held, that the illegitimate child was entitled to succeed to the intestate's acquired property in preference to intestate's mother and brother and sisters, subject to the life interest of the widow if any.

    Judgment in review in Re the Estate of Sundara (1) followed.

    THE facts of the case are fully set out in the following judgment of the District Judge (J. H. de Saram, Esq.): -

    " This is a case involving a question of Kandyan Law as to the right of an illegitimate child to succeed to her father's acquired property. The lands in question belonged to Wattegedara Appu Naide, to whom they were gifted by his adoptive father and mother, his uncle, and aunt. He died a short time ago, leaving, as is alleged, an estate below the value of Rs.1,000. The value of the estate is not in issu