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Every field, with few exceptions, has attached to it a garden, and a jungle 
ground called hena, which as a matter of course are inherited and transferred 
with it. 
No specific farm of years constitutes a prescriptive title to land, notwith- 
standing a vulgar saying which attaches validity to thirty years. But an 
undisturbed possession of many years is considered in all cases as a strong 
presumptive proof in favour of the possessor. 
Of the Species of Lands. 
The Singalese word game properly signifies villages ; but in the Kandyan 
country it is also frequently applied to a single estate or a single field. 
The latter is often called pangwwa or share. 
Villages, properly so called, are of the following kinds: 
Gabada-Game, a royal village. 
It may be generally described as containing muilettu lands, whieh the 
inhabitants cultivate gratuitously, and entirely for the benefit of the crown; 
and other lands which the inhabitants possess, in consideration of their cul- 
tivating the mullettu, or rendering certain other services to the crown. 
Wihare Game, a village belonging to a temple of Buddha. 
Dewale Game, a village belonging to a temple of some heathen deity. 
Vidane Game, a village under the order of a Vidan, and containing usually 
people of low caste, liable to public services. 
Ninda Game, a village which for the time being is the entire property of 
the grantee or temporary chief; if definitively granted by the King, with 
sannas, it becomes parveny. 
It generally contains a mullettu field, which the inhabitants, in considera- 
tion of their lands, cultivate gratuitously for the benefit ofthe grantee ; and 
besides are liable to the performance of certain other services for him. 
Gallat Game, a species of villages in the lower part of the Four Korles, the 
Third Korle, a part of Saffregam, much in the nature of a Ninda village, and 
sometimes bearing that name. 
Other villages and lands, which it is unnecessary to specify here, are deno- 
minated from the department to which they belong, as Kuruwe Game, or Pan- 
duwa Mullenge Game, or Panduwa. 
Kela is a royal field or land sown on account of the Crown. 
In royal villages it is the same as the mullettu. 
Parveny \and is that which is the private property of an individual pro- 
