6.Section 196 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor :
| 196. When the action is for the recovery of .the possession of immovable property, yielding rent or other profit, the court may, whenever the prayer of the plaint asks for damages in respect of mesne profits or rent, provide in. the decree for the payment of money in. lieu of mesne profits or rent in respect of such property from the date of the institution, of the action until the delivery of possession to' the party in whose favour the decree is made, with interest thereon at such rate not exceeding twelve per centum as the court thinks fit. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts