Present : Schneider and Garvin JJ. 1922

SENEVIRATNE v. HALANGODA et al.

 228--D. C. Kandy, 27,718.

Kandyan law-Diga marriage-Wife dying issueless-Husband does not acquire any portion of wife's landed property acquired before marriage-Wife dying leaving children-Husband's rights-Binna widower excluded from, rights to landed estate of deceased wife.

Where a Kandyan wife married in diga dies issueless, the husband does not inherit any portion of the wife's landed property acquired before marriage.

" Inherited property reverts to the source from which it was inherited where there is no issue. "

When a woman married in diga dies leaving issue, her husband takes a life interest in her landed property, which on his death will go to her children, or, if they have all died without issue, to their next of kin in their mother's family. In the above case if there be no issue, her husband will take only such landed property as he and his deceased wife acquired during coverture, the rest of the property passing to her parents and next of kin.

A binna widower is completely excluded from any rights to the landed estate of his deceased wife.

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