Ponnamperume V. Goonesekera Et Al.,

Present : De Sampayo J. and Garvin A. J.

PONNAMPERUME v. GOONESEKERA et al.

78.-D.C.Galle, 16,996 F.

Donation-Power of revocation reserved-Donor may revoke without sanction of Court-Is there a time limit ?-Remuneratory donation- Donation propter nuptias.

A donor may expressly reserve a power of revocation and exercise it himself without obtaining a decree of Court.

A donation propter nuptias is not revocable for ingratitude during the subsistence of the marriage. But it may be revoked by a donor who has reserved the power of revocation.

A donation proper nuptias is not a mere gift made on the occasion of a marriage, but a contract made as an inducement to marry. Where a donor reserves to himself the power to cancel the deed " at any time hereafter," there is no time limit within which the' power must be exercised.

THE facts appear from the following judgment of the District Judge (L. W. C. Schrader, Esq.):-

This is an action for the partition of a land which belonged to one Kurupanawe Gamage Juwanis. Juwanis sold the same by deed No. 258 of March 7, 1919, to the plaintiff and first defendant for valuable consideration

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