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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 .
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.
National Intellectual Property Office (NIPO) of Sri Lanka; T.S.K. Hemaratne: Intellectual Property Law and E-Commerce in Sri Lanka. Towards a Jurisprudence Based on Constitution, Roman-Dutch Law and Buddhist Principle [permanent dead link ] (Thesis, London 2005)
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 ...
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He was president of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka from 1974 to 1976. [6] Tambiah returned to Sri Lankan in 1975 and started the Tamil section of the Law Faculty at the University of Colombo. [3] He served as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Canada from September 1975 to December 1977. [3] [4] He then served as chair of the Law ...
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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.