Kandyan law

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Kandyan law is a traditional legal system of Sri Lanka that governed the highland Kandyan Kingdom, particularly in matters of marriage, inheritance, and customary rights.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Kandyan law canonical 4
Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act 1
Kandyan courts in Ceylon 1

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf customary law
legal system
administeredBy courts in Sri Lanka
appliesToGroup Kandyan Sinhalese
linked to: Sinhalese people
appliesToMatter non-consanguineous marriage
polygynous marriage (historically)
separation of property between spouses
appliesToRegion Central Highlands of Sri Lanka
Kandyan Kingdom
appliesToReligion primarily Buddhist communities
codifiedIn Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act
linked to: Kandyan law

various colonial-era ordinances
coexistsWith Muslim personal law in Sri Lanka
Roman-Dutch law
Tesawalamai law
linked to: Thesavalamai law
country Sri Lanka
distinguishesBetween ancestral property and acquired property
field customary rights
family law
inheritance law
property law
governed adoption
divorce
dowry
inheritance
marriage
property rights
succession
hasConcept binna marriage
diga marriage
hasSource customary practices transmitted orally
royal decrees of Kandyan kings
historicalInfluenceOn modern Sri Lankan family law
historicalPeriod Kandyan Kingdom era
linked to: Kandyan Kingdom
influencedBy Buddhist customs
Sinhalese customary practices
jurisdiction Kandyan provinces (historically)
language Sinhala
legalStatus personal law
legalSystemOf Kandyan Kingdom
legalTradition South Asian customary law
recognizedBy Sri Lankan legal system
relatedTo Kandyan Kingdom
history of Sri Lanka
statusAfterColonialPeriod partially retained
statusAfterIndependence continues as a form of personal law
typeOfInheritanceSystem customary inheritance

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Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kandyan kings legalSystem Kandyan law
Kandyan Kingdom knownFor Kandyan law
Kandyan Kingdom legalSystem Kandyan customary law
linked to: Kandyan law
Muslim courts in Ceylon distinctFrom Kandyan courts in Ceylon
linked to: Kandyan law
Thesavalamai law relatedTo Kandyan law
Kandyan law codifiedIn Kandyan Marriage and Divorce Act
linked to: Kandyan law
House of Kandy legalSystem Kandyan law