Summary

The 7th edition of this bilingual casebook has been comprehensively updated with new cases. Cases on constitutional law and land reform in the sections on common law principles illustrate the interplay between the common law, constitutional law and land reform. The purpose of the casebook is to provide access to elementary case law in a first course in property law. In the introductory section of the casebook the layout and structure of the case reports are discussed and explained, and students are provided with practical hints and advice regarding the reading of cases. One case is reproduced in full and used as an example of how cases should be analysed and read. Other cases are reproduced as fully as possible to allow students to develop and exercise their own skills in the analysis and reading of cases. The casebook should be used together with the 6th edition of Van der Walt and Pienaar's Introduction to the Law of Property and Inleiding tot die Sakereg, but references to other textbooks have also been included.