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Thesavalamai is defined here, that is, no one can give away property/land that he/she has not bought himself. The restriction is in the property inherited by people and not those properties people bought out of their earned income. This does not prevent anyone Sinhalese or Muslim from BUYING a land but getting as a donation or as a gift.
[ `Thesavalamai` is the traditional law of the Sri Lankan Tamil inhabitants Jaffna peninsula, codified by the Dutch during their colonial rule in 1707. The Law in its present form applies to most Tamils in northern Sri Lanka.The law is personal in nature thus it applicable mostly for property and marriage.[1] Under the this law, not all property could be given away. A person could give away only the tetiatettam, i.e. property acquired by either husband during the period after married life and or the priests acquiring from such properties. Even of the tetiatettam property, the husband cannot alienate the whole property; the wife is entitled to half of it. Those properties inherited from the parents cannot be given away according to ones own wish. There are also cases of old ladies who do not have any children gifting their properties to the temple. Currently in the putative state of Tamil Eelam, the rebel group LTTE uses laws based on Thesavalamai in its nascent judicial system. As such Thesavalami now applies throughout the Northeast of Sri Lanka which are under the military control of this organisation. ] |
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