No. 63. — 1910.] KANDYAN PROVINCES. 
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undoubtedly a loose mode of expression, rendered con- 
spicuously so by the interpretation clause of the Marriage 
Ordinance, No. 3 of 1870, which defines 'Kandyan Provinces' 
to mean the ' Provinces mentioned in Schedule B,' and 
Schedule B enumerates only one entire Province, the Central, 
with parts of the Eastern, Western, North- Western, Southern, 
and Northern Provinces — an area widely different from that 
mentioned in the Proclamation. The expression ' Kandyan 
Provinces ' has, therefore, no legal significance as defining 
any particular area, distinct and apart from the topographical 
division of the Island into the several Provinces, Northern, 
Southern, Eastern, Western, North- Western, Central, North- 
Central, and very lately, Uva, These together comprise 
the whole territory of the Colony, but the subdivisions, 
whether for administrative, judicial, or revenual purposes, are 
ever changing at the will of the executive or legislative 
authority, and if there were any such thing as a provincial 
domicile, it would necessarily be subject to the ever varying 
changes of provincial boundaries, which to-day might fix the 
domicile in one Province, and to-morrow transfer it to another, 
without any actual change of residence." 
In the same case Clarence, J., said : — 
"It is impossible to speak precisely as to any territorial 
limits of this application of Kandyan Law, since we are 
entirely without any definition precising any area over which 
it may be supposed to extend"; and Dias, J., said: "The 
best definition which I can give of the Kandyan Provinces is, 
that it is so much of the Island as is not included in the 
Maritime Provinces. With regard to the exact limits of the 
Kandyan Provinces we have no precise information, and 
probably when the whole Island became a British possession 
it became unnecessary to ascertain and define the exact limits 
of the two Provinces, Kandyan and Maritime. The first, and, 
so far as I know, the only official paper which deals with the 
subject is the Proclamation of February 11, 1815. The 
definition there given is too general, and wholly insufficient to 
fix the identity of the old Kandyan Provinces. In WijesiV'ha 
V, WijesiV^Jia, Clarence, J., repeated: "It is a matter of much 
