The views herein are purely persona] and do not reflect any views of the U.N. Secretariat. For an account of the legal system of Ceylon, tee Jennings and Thaxnbiah, Ceylon (in the scries " The British Commonwealth, The Development of its Laws and Constitutions,"' ed. by G. W. Keeton). * s. 4, Ordinance 22 of 1871. 3 An early account of the Roman-Dutch law possessory remedies as they were applied in Ceylon, is given in H. B. Thomson's Institutes of the Laws of Ceylon (London, 1866), p. 313 et seq. It would appear that the courts granted, among other remedies, the mandament van complainte, to one who had enjoyed quiet and undisturbed possession for more than a year and a day, and subsequently lost possession, and the mandament van spolle, to those dispossessed by force. For a complete account of these remedies in the Roman-Dutch law, see Price The Possessory remedies In Roman-Dutch law, and Lee Introduction to Roman-Dutch law, 3rd ed., B. II, Chap. V, p. 158 et seq.
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