ABSTRACT

This paper’s focus is to examine and identify the dynamism in customary land tenure in Sri Lanka. Customary tenure is a set of rules and norms that govern community allocation, use, access, and transfer of land and other natural resources. In Sri Lanka, the customary land tenure has been transforming from time to time with a variety of laws and legal systems. In this regard, Vihara and Devalegam tenure system, Literature and a field study was done in respect of the specified programme. The hypothesis of this study was that the “customary land tenure system is static, but one that has been transforming into new order from time to time, thus the customary land tenure system is a dynamic process” which has been proven and further elaborated by the model of dynamism in customary land tenure. It was identified that there is a different relationship between tenure rights and land productivity under the customary tenure system. Keywords: Customary tenure, Land tenure and Vihara and Devalegam
Publication date: 15/01/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.1.1073