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The South African law of sale is an area of the legal system in that country that describes rules applicable to a contract of sale (or, to be more specific, purchase and sale, or emptio venditio), generally described as a contract whereby one person agrees to deliver to another the free possession of a thing in return for a price in money.
South African Law Commission Act, 1973 (before 2003) South African Law Reform Commission Act, 1973 (after 2003) 20: Development of Self-government for Native Nations in South-West Africa Amendment Act, 1973: 21: Rhodes University (Private) Amendment Act, 1973: 22: University of South Africa (Private) Amendment Act, 1973: 23
Repeal of Laws Act, 1981: 95: South African Citizenship Amendment Act, 1981: 96: Income Tax Act, 1981: 97: Sales Tax Amendment Act, 1981: 98: South African Reserve Bank Amendment Act, 1981: 99: Revenue Laws Amendment Act, 1981: 100: Finance Act, 1981: 101: Republic of South Africa Constitution Second Amendment Act, 1981: 102: Financial ...
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The common-law principle of "riparian ownership" dominated the South African water dispensation until 1998. Unlike so much of South African common law (and indeed most of the South African common law relating to water), the principle did not originate in the Netherlands; it developed with reference to English law. The twofold foundations of ...
The Interpretation Act [4] defines it as "any law, proclamation, ordinance, Act of Parliament or other enactment having the force of law." [5] The Constitution of South Africa, which has the force of supreme law, [5] and as such sets the standards and requirements for the construction and construal of statutes, also provides a definition of ...
Countries (in pink) which share the mixed South African legal system. South Africa has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which ...
South African contract law is "essentially a modernized version of the Roman-Dutch law of contract", [1] and is rooted in canon and Roman laws. In the broadest definition, a contract is an agreement two or more parties enter into with the serious intention of creating a legal obligation. Contract law provides a legal framework within which ...