PVL1501 Study Guide summary.

Law of Persons PVL1501 Notes Department of Private Law 2 Table of Contents SU 1: Law of persons 4 Main Section: Beginning and end of legal the personality 9 SU 4: Beginning of legal personality 9 Children’s Act 38 of 2005 9 [1] Ex Parte Boedel Steenkamp 1962 (3) SA 954 (O) 12 [2] Road Accident Fund v Mtati 2005 (6) SA 215 (SCA) 14 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 92 of 1996 15 Sterilisation Act 44 of 1998 17 [3] Christian Lawyers Association of SA v Minister of Health 1998 (11) BCLR 1434 (T) 19 [4] Christian Lawyers Association of SA v Minister of Health 2004 (10) BCLR 1086 (T) 20 SU 6: End of legal personality 21 [5] Re Beaglehole 1908 TS 49 23 [6] Ex parte Pieters 1993 (3) SA 379 (D) 24 Dissolution of Marriages on Presumption of Death Act 23 of 1979 25 Births and Deaths Registration Act 51 of 1992 25 Main section: Factors which determine status 26 SU 8: Definition of concepts 26 SU 10: Children born of unmarried parents 32 Children’s Act 38 of 2005 33 [18] S v L 1992 (3) SA 713 (E) 38 [20] YM v LB 2010 (6) SA 338 (SCA) 39 SU 11: Status & change in status of children born of unM.par 40 Intestate Succession Act 81 of 1987 43 Wills Act 7 of 1953 43 [22] Motan v Joosub 1930 AD 61 44 [23] Petersen v Maintenance Officer [2004] 1 All SA 117 (C) 45 [24] FF v JJ 2011 (3) SA 126 (SCA) 46 [21] Fraser v Children’s Court 1997 (2) SA 261 (CC) 47 SU 12 – Minority 48 SU 13: Legal status of an infans 52 SU 14 - Legal status of minor 53 Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2000 53 SU 15: Minor’:,ratifi+tions re:minor’.2act 54 Basic Conditions of Employment Act 75 of 1997 54 [33] Edelstein v Edelstein 1952 (3) SA 1 (A) 56 SU 16: Minor’s contractual capacity – misrepresentation 57 [32] Louw v MJ & H Trust 1975 (4) SA 268 (T) 58 SU 17: Minor’s contractual capacity – unjustified enrichment 59 SU 18: Minor’s contractual capacity – restitutio in integrum 61 SU 19: Minor’s capacity iro other types juristic acts, litigation+delictual&. 62 Child Justice Act 75 of 2008 66 Main heading: Termination of minority 68 SU 20: Attainment of , M, venia aetatis + release from tutelage 68 Road Accident Fund Act 56 of 1996 68 [37] Malcolm v Premier, WC Gov. [2014] 2 All SA 251 (SCA) (Shange v MEC, KZN) 69 3 SU 21: Emancipation 71 [39] Dickens v Daley 1956 (2) SA 11 (N) 72 [42] Watson v Koen H/A BMO 1994 (2) SA 489 (O) 73 SU 22: Diverse factors which affect status 74 --MENTAL ILLNESS 75 Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 76 Divorce Act 70 or 1979 76 Matrimonal Property Act 88 of 1984 76 Mental Health Care Act 17 of 2002 78 --INABILITY TO MANAGE OWN AFFAIRS 79 Older Persons Act 13 of 2006 79 --INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL & DRUGS 79 --PRODIGALITY 80 --INSOLVENCY 82