Your authoritative and practical partner for uniform conveyancing in South Africa, with added insights on customary marriages and exam preparation.
The Practitioner’s Guide to Conveyancing and Notarial Practice, now in its brand new 3rd Edition authored by Allen West, aims to create uniformity in conveyancing practices in South Africa, as required by the Deeds Registries Act. The book provides practical guidance to practitioners and students on important day-to-day conveyancing topics, substantiated by authoritative sources like case law and conference resolutions. It comprises two sections – the first covering core conveyancing issues, and the second containing key Chief Registrar’s Circulars and an index of all circulars since 1949. It provides invaluable insights on drafting extending clauses and causa for estate transfers and other transactions.
As an added bonus, practitioners can rely on the chapter covering customary marriages to navigate their clients’ marital status enquiries.
The book also includes an exam preparation guide to help candidates apply the syllabus to real-world conveyancing. This has proved to be extremely useful to our customers who have purchased previous editions of the book over the years.
Table of contents
CHAPTER_1 – An overview of the deeds registration system and deeds registries in South Africa
CHAPTER_2 – The contract of sale and matters related to sale of land
CHAPTER_3 – How ownership in land is conveyed from one person to another and the analysis of the conventional deed of transfer
CHAPTER_4 – The conveyancer and notary and their responsibilities
CHAPTER_5 – Deeds to follow sequence of their relative causes
CHAPTER_6 – Identification of parties in deeds and documents tendered for registration or execution at a deed registry
CHAPTER_7 – Description of parties in the preamble and vesting clause of deeds and documents
CHAPTER_8 – Contractual capacity of the transferor
CHAPTER_9 – Agency and powers of attorney
CHAPTER_10 – Various causae of the deed of transfer
CHAPTER_11 – Personal and praedial servitudes in terms of the Deeds Registries Act 47 of 1937
CHAPTER_12 – Restrictive title deed conditions
CHAPTER_13 – Estate Transfers
CHAPTER_14 – Interdicts and forced sales
CHAPTER_15 – Subdivisional and partition transfers of land
CHAPTER_16 – An overview of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013
CHAPTER_17 – Sundry applications in terms of the Deeds Registries Act 47 of 1937 and the Administration of Estates Act 66 of 1965
CHAPTER_18 – Opening of township register
CHAPTER_19 – Certificates of title and substituted title deeds
CHAPTER_20 – The analysis of the conventional mortgage bond and notes on notarial bonds
CHAPTER_21 – Mortgage bonds and restrictive conditions
CHAPTER_22 – Miscellaneous registrations in respect of registered bonds
CHAPTER_23 – Expropriation transfers and related matters
CHAPTER_24 – Deeds of Transfer by virtue of an Order of Court
CHAPTER_25 – Notarial lease agreements over immovable property
CHAPTER_26 – Antenuptial contracts
CHAPTER_27 – Transfer duty
CHAPTER_28 – The Trust Property Control Act 57 of 1988
CHAPTER_29 – The Civil Unions Act 17 of 2006
CHAPTER_30 – Black Marriages: The past and the present
CHAPTER_31 – The recording and cancellation of a contract in terms of the Alienation of Land Act, 1981
CHAPTER_32 – The Subdivision of Agricultural Land Act 70 of 1970
CHAPTER_33 – The Land titles Adjustment Act 111 of 1993
CHAPTER_34 – Sectional title matters
CHAPTER_35 – Housing Development Schemes for Retired Persons Act 65 of 1988
CHAPTER_36 – Excisions and Incisions
Table of Cases
Table of Acts
Subject Index
Guidelines to prepare for the conveyancing examination.
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