In an earlier action D.C. Kegalle L/16312 in respect of another land between Rana and Kiribindu (reported in 1979 (2) N.L.R. 73) it had been held by the Supreme Court on a construction of section 9 of the Kandyan Law Declaration and Amendment Ordinance, No. 39 of 1938 that after dissolution of a marriage of a diga married woman she can re-acquire her lost right to succeed to her paternal inheritance by change of her residence to the mulgedera.