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University of Cape Town

Department of Private Law

Comparative Legal HistoryRDL 1004H/7H

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1. How did modern South African law come to incorporate Roman legal rules? You may use

a specific rule as an example, as long as you do not use the same material to answer any

of the questions elow.

!. "..#he form of the contract etween the parties does not, therefore, determine whether a

deli$ery in pursuance of it passes ownership, ut the form is not a negligile factor fromwhich no inference can e drawn. %n the contrary it has considerale $alue ecause, if

the parties put their contract in the form of a sale on credit, a strong inference can e

drawn that they intended a deli$ery in pursuance of that contract to transfer ownership,

whereas if they put their contract in the form of a locatio operis, an equally strong

inference to the contrary can e drawn.&

'(atermeyer )A at p *+ in Commissioner of Customs and Excise v Randles ,Brothers

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iscuss.

*. Sempronia sells #itius a $ase. t turns out that the $ase is crac2ed and cannot hold

water. iscuss the remedies a$ailale to #itius in classical Roman law and explain how

those remedies de$eloped.

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-.1 How 3nglish are the modern South African rules on defamation?

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-.! How Roman are the modern South African rules on defamation?E$D