Present: Dalton J. and Jayewardene A. J.

UKKU BANDA v. PAULIS SINGHO et al.

282-D. C. Kegalla, 6,818.

    Kandyan law-A gift absolute and irrevocable-Revocability.

Where a Kandyan deed of gift was expressed in the following terms : " I, Ukku Banda, in consideration of the love and affection which I have and bear unto Lokuhamy, do hereby give, grant, assign, transfer, set over, and assure unto the said Lokuhamy, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns as a gift absolute and irrevocable .... to have and to hold the said shares of the said premises hereby conveyed or intended so to be unto the said Lokuhamy, her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns absolutely for ever,"-

Held, that the deed was irrevocable.

PLAINTITFF brought the present action for a declaration of title to a land which he had in 1905 by deed P 1 gifted to his wife, Lokuhamy. Lokuhamy died in 1922, leaving a daughter, Punchinona, who by deed D 2 sold the land to the first defendant. In 1923, plaintiff, by deed P 2, revoked his deed of gift. In 1924, by deed D 3, the first defendant conveyed the land to the second defendant. Both the defendants w