1916 Present: Ennis J. and De Sampayo J.

UKKUWA v. BANDUWA.

16-D. C. Kurunegala, 5,396.

Kandyan law-Acquired property-Inheritance-Donation by father to son-Son dying issueless, leaving mother and step-brothers.

S, a Kandyan, gifted a land to his son P. P. died issueless, leaving him surviving his mother, D, and step-brothers (children of S by another wife).

Held, that the property devolved on D on the death of P, to the exclusion of his (P's) step-brothers.

Property gifted to a person is acquired property of that person.

THE facts are fully set out in the judgment.

Bawa, K.C., for appellants.

G. Koch (with him P. M. Jayawardene), for respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

March 3, 1916. ENNIS J.

The question in this appeal is one of the Kandyan law of inheritance. In 1906 one Sedara gifted an undivided half share of certain lands to his son Pina. Pina died intestate, leaving surviving him his mother, Dingiri. Dingiri gifted the land to Kiriya, who sold it to the plaintiff. The defendants are the step-brothers of Pina, children of Sedara by another wife. Two points arose in the case: first, whether the property was " acquired " or paraveni proper