1927 Present: Schneider J., Lyall Grant J., and Maartensz A.J.

DE SILVA v. LAPAYA et al.

136-D. C. Kandy, 31,975.

Registration-Misdescription of village-Bight folio-Priority-Land Registration Ordinance, No. 14 of 1891, s. 24.

Where, owing to a misdescription of the village in which a land is situate, a deed affecting the land is registered in a folio different from that in which it would have been registered, had the correct village been given,-

Held, that the deed was not duly registered in accordance with the provisions of the Land Registration Ordinance, and would not have the benefit of priority conferred by the Ordinance.

Rajapakse v. Fernando 1 [21 N. L. R. 495.] distinguished.

THIS was an action for declaration of title to a land called Edandekumbura, which belonged to one Ganitha, who sold it to his sister Ranee by deed No. 16,119 (P1). On the death of Ranee without issue, Ganitha re-acquired the land by inheritance and sold an undivided half share to Charles Silva by deed No. 111 (P2) dated July 20, 1923, registered on July 21, 1923. Charles Silva sold it to the plaintiff by deed No. 150 (P3) dated March 17, 1924, an