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South African property law regulates the "rights of people in or over certain objects or things." [ 1 ] It is concerned, in other words, with a person's ability to undertake certain actions with certain kinds of objects in accordance with South African law. [ 2 ] Among the formal functions of South African property law is the harmonisation of ...
Foreclosure is a legal process in which a lender attempts to recover the balance of a loan from a borrower who has stopped making payments to the lender by forcing the sale of the asset used as the collateral for the loan. [1][2] Formally, a mortgage lender (mortgagee), or other lienholder, obtains a termination of a mortgage borrower ...
According to Mackeurtan, Purchase and sale (emptio venditio) is a mutual contract for the transfer of possession of a thing in exchange for a price. It has three essentials: consent (consensus ad idem); a thing sold (merx); and a price (pretium). [8] Remember that a sale contract is a special form of contract, and so all law discussed under the ...
The Cape Town Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, or Cape Town Treaty, is an international treaty intended to standardize transactions involving movable property. The treaty creates international standards for registration of contracts of sale (including dedicated registration agencies), security interests (liens), leases ...
Nearly 1,000 homes in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, have been destroyed by gale-force winds, displacing around 4,000 people, authorities and an aid organization said as the city ...
"Property" in this context is defined to include "movable or immovable property wherever situate in South Africa." [27] It includes a right of action, unless the action is one that the insolvent is permitted to institute. It also includes property that is, or the proceeds of property that are, in the hands of a sheriff under a writ of attachment.
Repossession. Repossession, colloquially repo, is a " self-help " type of action in which the party having right of ownership of a property takes the property in question back from the party having right of possession without invoking court proceedings. The property may then be sold by either the financial institution or third party sellers.
The South African law of lease is an area of the legal system in South Africa which describes the rules applicable to a contract of lease (or letting and hiring, Lat locatio conductio, Afrik huur en verhuring). [ 1 ]: 906 This is broadly defined as a synallagmatic contract between two parties, the lessor and the lessee, in terms of which one ...