General
Customary marriages
21 May 2003
Allen West discusses registrations involving customary marriages in the light of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998. The series of three articles appeared in De Rebus from October to December 2002.Registration of bonds by Companies or CCs
18 June 2003
What steps should the reasonable attorney, acting diligently and with the necessary care expected of him, take when registering bonds for Companies or Close Corporations in favour of financial institutions?Notes on the Financial Intelligence Centre Act
02 July 2003
Derryn Pearson of Cliffe Dekker Inc. looks at the implications of this act and the obligations it imposes on attorneys. She also touches on its applicability to conveyancing attorneys and the issue of attorney client confidentiality.Transfer duty test case
09 July 2003
Mike Nolan, in a letter in the July De Rebus, argues for a test case to challenge the SA Revenue Service (SARS) over the sale of a beneficial interest in a property owning trust.The position of personal servitude holders in forced sales
09 July 2003
Allen West, writing in the July 2003 De Rebus endeavours to set the record straight with regard to sales in insolvency and sales in execution, where the holder of a personal servitude has waived preference of his right in favour of a bond which was registered subsequent to the personal servitude.Risk Alert Bulletin - 1
16 July 2003
This is the first instalment in a series of articles on Risky Areas in Conveyancing Practice, taken from the February Risk Alert Bulletin and re-published with their permission.Risk Alert Bulletin - 2
23 July 2003
This is the second instalment in our series of articles on Risky Areas in Conveyancing Practice, taken from the Risk Alert Bulletin and published with the permission of the Attorneys Insurance Indemnity Fund.Risk Alert Bulletin - 3
30 July 2003
This is the last instalment in our series of articles on Risky Areas in Conveyancing Practice, taken from the May Risk Alert Bulletin and re-published with their permission.Community of property and registrability
06 August 2003
Allen West focuses on the lawfulness and effects of testamentary conditions, excluding community of property, on property which is bequeathed or donated, in Registrability and effect of excluding community of property in the August 2003 of De Rebus.Bona vacantia assets of companies
13 August 2003
How does a conveyancer deal with assets that are still registered in the name of a company which has been liquidated and its affairs fully wound up in terms of s 419 of the Companies Act 61 of 1973?
