The Property Practitioners Bill
The Property Practitioners Bill has now been signed into law by the President but it is not yet known when the Act will come...
New Procedure for Regulation 68 Application for Deeds Registered After 1 January 2020 –...
RE: Amended Regulation 68 as per GG No. 42813 dated 1 November 2019
All previous circulars relating to these procedures within our office, are hereby withdrawn...
Essential reference to property law updated
Significant changes to South African property legislation make it necessary for legal practitioners specialising in this aspect of law to have access to the...
Conveyancing News – What May Serve as Security Under a Notarial Bond?
Must the movable assets be corporeal?
A notarial bond is defined in section 102 of the Deeds Registries Act 47 of 1937 as follows: “means a...
First part of the Electronic Deeds Registration Act is now in operation
Section 2 of the Electronic Deeds Registration Act 2 of 2019 comes into effect today. This is the first piece of the Act to...
Pretoria Deeds Office Closure Times for December 2019
In terms of a meeting held between the Conveyancers and the Registrar of Deeds Pretoria, the following was decided.
The deeds office will...
Conveyancing News – Notarial Tie Agreements
Introduction
For time immemorial registrars of deeds have been registering notarial tie agreements which have the status of a personal servitude, and are capable of...
Conveyancing News – Massing and Adiation vis-à-vis Massing and Election
Introduction
Uncertainty, from a conveyancing perspective, prevails with regard to massing and adiation, and massing and election. In this article it will be endeavored to...
Conveyancing News – Creation of Positive and Negative Personal Servitudes
Introduction
From a conveyancing perspective it is very important to distinguish between positive and negative personal servitudes. The reason is due to the fact that...
Conveyancing Update – Confusion Surrounding the Substitution of a Debtor ito Sec 57 of...
A fair amount of legal debate surrounding the application and interpretation of the provisions of section 57 of the Deeds Registries Act 47 of...
Conveyancing Update – Lapsing of a Real Right of Extension Which Has Been Subdivided
Section 25(4)(b) of the Sectional Titles Act 95 of 1986 (the Act) provides for the subdivision and cession of a real right of extension,...
Conveyancing Update – Certificates Issued In Terms Of Section 15b(3) Of The Sectional Titles...
Introduction Practice has showed that the contents of the section 15B(3) certificates provided by conveyancers do not always depict the correct state of affairs....
