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The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .
Kandyan law is the customary law that originated in the Kingdom of Kandy, which is applicable to Sri Lankans who are Buddhist and from the former provinces of the Kandyan Kingdom before the 1815 Kandyan Convention. It is one of three customary laws which are still in use in Sri Lanka. The other two customary laws are the Thesavalamai and the ...
Pages in category "Law of Sri Lanka" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Law of Sri Lanka; A.
Thesavalamai is the traditional law of the Sri Lankan Tamil inhabitants of the Jaffna peninsula, codified by the Dutch during their colonial rule in 1707. The Thesawalamai is a collection of the Customs of the Malabar Inhabitants of the Province of Jaffna (collected by Dissawe Isaak) and given full force by the Regulation of 1806.
The Law of Contracts: A Comparative Study of the Roman-Dutch, English and Customary Laws of Contract in Ceylon (2 Volumes, 1965), H.W. Cave & Co., Colombo 1967. Reprinted 1999, 2013 The Law in Crisis: Bridges of Understanding, Capemoss, London 1975.
In the history of Sri Lanka, the Kandyan Convention (Sinhala: උඩරට ගිවිසුම, romanized: Udarata Giwisuma) was a treaty signed on 2 March 1815 between the British governor of Ceylon, Sir Robert Brownrigg, and the chiefs of the Kandyan Kingdom, British Ceylon, for the deposition of King Sri Vikrama Rajasinha and ceding of the kingdom's territory to the British Crown.
The Law & Society Trust (LST) is a not-for-profit organisation engaged in legal research, advocacy and human rights documentation and it's headquartered at No.102/3, Barns Place, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka. LST was founded in 1982 by the late Dr Neelan Tiruchelvam under the Trusts Ordinance.
K. C. Kamalasabayson, Attorney General of Sri Lanka; Olga Kefalogianni, Greek Cabinet Minister; Cecil Kelsick, Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago; Asma Khan, chef and cookbook author; Sir Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, President of the UN General Assembly (1962–63); President of the ICJ (1970–73) Sir Leonard Knowles, first Chief Justice of The ...