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The law of conveyancing in South Africa refers the legal process whereby a person, company, close corporation or trust becomes the registered and legal owner of immovable property, including improved and unimproved land, houses, farms, flats and sectional titles, as well as the registration of bonds and other rights to fixed properties, including servitudes, usufructs and the like.
Under both, the lessee may claim registration against the title deeds only if the lease is in writing, and only if there is a title deed against which it can be registered. As the RHA applies, inter alia , to huts and shacks, there will in practice be many instances of dwellings on land for which there is no title deed, but this is not the ...
The Department of Rural Development and Land Reform was, from 2009 to 2019, one of the departments of the South African government. It was responsible for topographic mapping, cadastral surveying, deeds registration, and land reform.
By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South Africa's Treasury plans to speed up the transfer of ownership of homes worth 180 billion rand ($15 billion) to about one million poor people from April ...
The floodplains of the Luvuvhu River and the Limpopo River.. 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]
A different document called a deed is used to convey real estate. In a real estate contract, the type of deed to be used to convey the real estate may be specified, such as a warranty deed or a quitclaim deed. If a deed type is not specifically mentioned, "marketable title" may be specified, implying a warranty deed should be provided.
Many jurisdictions have switched or are switching from a deeds registration system to a system of title registration. For example, Hong Kong, one of the last common law jurisdictions to maintain a deed registration system, passed the Land Titles Ordinance in 2004, which will see Hong Kong shift to the Torrens system. The law will be gradually ...
In real estate, an erf (pl. erven) is the legal term used in Namibia, South Africa and Eswatini to describe a piece of land registered in a deeds registry as an erf, lot, plot or stand. The term is of Afrikaans origin. Section 102 of the South African Deeds Registries Act, 1937 [1] provides the following definition: