1963 Present : T. S. Fernando J., and Abeysundere. J

YASO MENIKA ,Appellant, and  BISO  MENIKA and ,another, Respondents

S. C. 5411961?D. G. Kurunegala, 5299

Kandyan Law Declaration and Amendment Ordinance (Cap. 59)- Acquired properly-Intestate succession Binna  and diga marriages Illegitimate  children - Birth  certificate -Sections  9 (1)  to 15 (c);

The Kandyan Law Declaration and Amendment Ordinance debars a woman married -in diqa after- the -commencement of  that Ordinance from succeeding to any rights in the acquired property of her-father who died-after  the-commencement of that Ordinance.

Where a deceased person - had merely caused to-be--registered a birth of a child in the sense that-he had informed that registrar of the birth , but had net-had himself registered as the father of-that child, the latter can maintain no claim as an illegitimate child of the deceased to succeed to any acquired property of the. deceased - by virtue of section 15 (c) of the Kandyan Law Declaration and Amendment Ordinance.

APPEAL from a judgment of the District Court, Kurunegala.

Walter Wimalachandra, with. M. T. Sivardeen, for the petitio