Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Legal updates and commentary from our Environmental and Mining Law team for January 2017.
Published under PN 3 of 3 January 2017
Published under PN 5 of 27 January 2017
Published under GNR 64 of 27 January 2017
Published under GNR 60 of 27 January 2017
Mandates in Lease Agreements
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Property Law
It often occurs that spouses enter into a customary marriage and subsequently, for religious or other unbeknown reasons, wish to “convert” such customary marriage into a civil marriage, governed by the Marriage Act 25 of 1961. The question begging an answer is what are the proprietary consequences of such subsequent civil marriage? It is trusted that what follows will shed more light on this issue.
From a conveyancing point of view and for the ensuing reasons it is imperative to distinguish between a pre emptive right proper and a pre emptive right condition which prima facie appears to be a consumable pre emptive right, but binds successors in title or is enforceable in perpetuum.
PROTECTED AREAS: CULTURAL HERITAGE SURVEY GUIDELINES PUBLIC COMMENT