Piyadasa V. Panditharatna Hamine

1959 Present: Weerasooriya, J., and Sansoni, J.

PIYADASA, Appellant, and PANDITHARATNA
HAMINE, Respondent

S. C. 491-D. C. Matara, 722/M

    Lease-Cancellation- Method.

Assuming that a lease of immovable property for a period exceeding one- month can be cancelled or terminated by means of an informal endorsement OD. the deed of lease, it is essential that, in such a case, possession also of the leased property should be surrendered by the lessee to the lessor.

APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court, Matara.

D. R. P. Goonetilleke, for defendant-appellant.

W. D. Guna8ekera, for plaintiff-respondent.

Cur. adv. vult.

November 20, 1959. WERASOORIYA, J.-

The plaintiff-respondent filed this action against the defendant- appellant for the recovery of a sum of Rs. 400 being the balance said to be due on a promise in writing dated the 6th October, 1953, granted by the defendant and marked " A " and annexed to the plaint.
The document "A " is in Sinhalese. According to a translation filed of record (the correctness of which has not been questioned) the material part of the document reads as follows:

"I Wickremasinghe Ambepitiy

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