A Sinhala-language treatment of the law of marriage in Sri Lanka, written by Kapila Gamini Jayasinghe and published in Colombo by M. D. Gunasena & Co. The entire text is in Sinhala; there is no English in it, so it will be of use only to readers who read the language.
The book sets out the legal rules governing marriage and then works through what happens when a marriage ends: the grounds on which a marriage may be dissolved, the division of property in such a case, and maintenance payments. Alongside the statement of the law, it draws on reported court decisions, including judgments from comparatively recent years.
Jayasinghe writes for a mixed readership. The material is pitched at law students, practising lawyers and those researching the subject, but it is put in plain, straightforward Sinhala so that a general reader without legal training can follow the argument. That combination — ordinary language applied to statutes, grounds and case law — is the book's governing idea.
Readers looking for a single Sinhala volume covering the legal side of marriage and its dissolution, rather than a procedural handbook or a commentary on one statute alone, will find the scope here broad enough to cover the main questions in one place.
- Author: Kapila Gamini Jayasinghe
- Publisher: M. D. Gunasena & Co. (Pvt) Ltd
- Language: Sinhala
- ISBN: 9789552123207
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