LAW OF PERSONS PVL 1501 EXAM
2024-2025 WITH CORRECT QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
General concepts - ANS-nie n vraag
Capacity to litigate: - ANS-The capacity to appear in court as a party to a
suit.
Contract: - ANS-An agreement entered into with the intention of creating an obligation or obligations.
Curator: - ANS-A person who manages another person's affairs on behalf of the latter because he or she
is not capable of doing so. A curator ventris acts, in general, on behalf of an unborn child,
A curator ad litem acts on behalf of another only for the purposes of litigation and a curator bonis
administers another's property.
Damages: - ANS-The amount which a person can claim as compensation for actual patrimonial loss he or
she has suffered as a consequence of delict or breach of contract. See also ''reparation'' infra.
Delict: - ANS-A delict is a wrongful and intentional or negligent act as a consequence of which another
suffers a loss.
, ''Wrongful'' is a term with speci c connotations that will be dealt with in the module on the law of delict.
In short, this term signi es the infringement of a right (subjektiewe reg) or the non-ful lment of a legal
duty.
Capacity to act: - ANS-The capacity to perform valid juristic acts.
Capacity to litigate: The capacity to appear in court as a party to a
suit.
Juristic act: - ANS-A human act to which the law attaches at least some of the consequences desired by
the party or parties performing the act.
The distinction between a void and a voidable juristic act is important. A void juristic act is void ab initio
and devoid of all legal consequences. The position is simply as if the juristic act had never taken place. A
voidable juristic act, on the other hand, is valid and has all the usual legal consequences until it is nulli ed
or set aside (e.g. by a party to the contract or a third party). It differs from a valid juristic act in that it
has some or other defect that might lead to its nulli cation, but does not render the juristic act void from
the outset.
Enrichment: - ANS-Unjusti ed enrichment occurs when one person obtains a patrimonial bene t at the
expense of another without a valid legal ground existing for the transfer of the benefit.
Estoppel: - ANS-The doctrine that provides that if someone culpably represents that a certain state of
affairs exists, and another person acts to his or her own disadvantage in consequence of such a
representation, the deceiver is precluded from raising the true facts.
Exceptio non adimpleti contractus: - ANS-A defence which a party to a reciprocal contract may, under
certain circumstances, employ against the other party when the latter sues the former on the contract
and the latter himself or herself has not performed or tendered performance.
Agreement: - ANS-Conscious meeting of minds (consensus ad idem) between two or more persons. An
agreement creating obligations is known as a contract.
Law of succession: - ANS-The law of intestate succession determines how and on whom a person's
estate devolves when he or she dies without a valid will. The law of testate succession determines how
and on whom a person's estate devolves when the testator has left a valid will.
Legal capacity: - ANS-The capacity to have rights and duties.
2024-2025 WITH CORRECT QUESTIONS
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS GRADED A+
General concepts - ANS-nie n vraag
Capacity to litigate: - ANS-The capacity to appear in court as a party to a
suit.
Contract: - ANS-An agreement entered into with the intention of creating an obligation or obligations.
Curator: - ANS-A person who manages another person's affairs on behalf of the latter because he or she
is not capable of doing so. A curator ventris acts, in general, on behalf of an unborn child,
A curator ad litem acts on behalf of another only for the purposes of litigation and a curator bonis
administers another's property.
Damages: - ANS-The amount which a person can claim as compensation for actual patrimonial loss he or
she has suffered as a consequence of delict or breach of contract. See also ''reparation'' infra.
Delict: - ANS-A delict is a wrongful and intentional or negligent act as a consequence of which another
suffers a loss.
, ''Wrongful'' is a term with speci c connotations that will be dealt with in the module on the law of delict.
In short, this term signi es the infringement of a right (subjektiewe reg) or the non-ful lment of a legal
duty.
Capacity to act: - ANS-The capacity to perform valid juristic acts.
Capacity to litigate: The capacity to appear in court as a party to a
suit.
Juristic act: - ANS-A human act to which the law attaches at least some of the consequences desired by
the party or parties performing the act.
The distinction between a void and a voidable juristic act is important. A void juristic act is void ab initio
and devoid of all legal consequences. The position is simply as if the juristic act had never taken place. A
voidable juristic act, on the other hand, is valid and has all the usual legal consequences until it is nulli ed
or set aside (e.g. by a party to the contract or a third party). It differs from a valid juristic act in that it
has some or other defect that might lead to its nulli cation, but does not render the juristic act void from
the outset.
Enrichment: - ANS-Unjusti ed enrichment occurs when one person obtains a patrimonial bene t at the
expense of another without a valid legal ground existing for the transfer of the benefit.
Estoppel: - ANS-The doctrine that provides that if someone culpably represents that a certain state of
affairs exists, and another person acts to his or her own disadvantage in consequence of such a
representation, the deceiver is precluded from raising the true facts.
Exceptio non adimpleti contractus: - ANS-A defence which a party to a reciprocal contract may, under
certain circumstances, employ against the other party when the latter sues the former on the contract
and the latter himself or herself has not performed or tendered performance.
Agreement: - ANS-Conscious meeting of minds (consensus ad idem) between two or more persons. An
agreement creating obligations is known as a contract.
Law of succession: - ANS-The law of intestate succession determines how and on whom a person's
estate devolves when he or she dies without a valid will. The law of testate succession determines how
and on whom a person's estate devolves when the testator has left a valid will.
Legal capacity: - ANS-The capacity to have rights and duties.
