From what i learnt.

2. Introduction
• Kandyan law

3. Application of kandyan law
• No.5 of 1852 Ordinance.
• Sec.5- When there is a gap in kandyan law the law
of maritime provinces should be used to fill the gap.
• Sec.7- Kandyan provinces be governed by Criminal
law of maritime provinces.
• Sec.8- Law of maritime provinces should apply in
regard to inheritance rights and Marriages of
Europeans and Burghers.
• Sec.9- Mohommadan code should apply to all
Muslims.

4. Kandyan Marriages
• Diga Marriage
• Binna Marriage

5. Kandyan Succession ordinance
No. 23 of 1917
• Children of a Marriage between a Kandyan man
resident in Kandyan Provinces and a woman not
subjected to Kandyan law.
• Marriage contracted in Binna between a Kandyan
woman resident in Kandyan Province and a man not
subjected to Kandyan law.
• Kandyan law gave solution for the problem
regarding the new applicable to children of mixed
marriages.

6. Kandyan Marriage and Divorce
Act No. 44 of 1952
• Repealed Kandyan Marriage Ordinance of 1870
• Marriages can be solemnized under the Kandyan
law only between Kandyan Parties.
• Registration under the act is impulsory.

7. Cases
• KERSHAW VS NICOLL
– Kandyan law is applicable to all persons residing
in kandyan provinces.
– Territorial law
• WILLIAM VS ROBERTSON
– Kandyan law was not applicable as a territorial
law.
– Only to people who can be called as kandyans
who lived in those provinces as at 1815.

8. Thank You