The law of property regulates various rights to legal objects.

A house is an example of a legal object.

A person is an example of a legal object.

A legal object is a thing that a legal subject can have rights to.

Contract of service

Contract for undertaking a piece of work

Contract of mandate

Contract of partnership

The African tradition

The common-law tradition

The Judaic tradition

The civil-law tradition

The Constitution of the Union of South Africa

General principles and ideas

The Code Civil

The old writers on Roman-Dutch law

If the creditor sells the property to discharge the debt, the debtor is entitled to the excess income of the sale.

If the debtor is unable to repay the debt, the creditor can sell the property and use the proceeds of the sale to discharge the debt.

Agreements related to real securities traditionally involve the debtor and creditor as parties, without the involvement of any third parties.

In terms of the principles governing real securities, the creditor becomes the owner of the thing provided in surety if the debtor cannot repay the loan.

Unreal contracts

Consensual contracts

Verbal contracts

Written contracts

Oliver Tambo

Nelson Mandela

Chief Albert Luthuli

Bishop Desmond Tutu

The rei vindicatio was available to the owner of land over which another person unlawfully claimed to have a servitude.

The rei vindicatio was available to the servitude holder to enforce their right.

The servitude holder was not entitled to enforce their servitude against the owner of the property, as the owner had the strongest right to the property.

The servitude holder was entitled to enforce their servitude against all persons.

In Amod v Multilateral Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund, the Supreme Court of Appeal found that Muslim marriages could not be recognised.

In Daniels v Campbell NO and others, the Constitutional Court found that the word “spouse” in certain legislation should include partners in monogamous Muslim marriages.

In Ismail v Ismail, the Appellate Division found that the non-recognition of Muslim marriages would not result in actual suffering.

In Hassam v Jacobs NO and others, the Constitutional Court found that spouses in polygynous Muslim marriages should be afforded the same benefits as those in de facto monogamous Muslim marriages.