PVL MIDTERM EXAM 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ name the two classes of subjects recognized in SA?
Answer: Natural persons and juristic
◉ Is a Monstrum regarded as a legal subject in our law today?
Answer: yes, any form of human life is regarded as a legal subject
◉ is a partnership regarded as a jusistic person in our law?
Answer: no, it is not
◉ Study unit 4.2 : Registration of births
Answer: Heaton p 8-12 (lees deur)
◉ Study unit 5
Answer:
◉ Interests of the unborn child
Answer: The nasciturus fiction
,◉ nasciturus
Answer: conceived but unborn child
◉ nasciturus fiction
Answer: unborn child is regarded as a living person, although it has
not been born yet
◉ abeyance
Answer: the position of being without, or of waiting for, an owner or
claimant.
the interests are kept aside until the child is born, and at birth
receives the interests
◉ nasciturus must benefit
Answer: there is a condition that it must be to the unborn child's
advantage
◉ Wherever a situation arises where it would be to the advantage of
the nasciturus if he or she already been born, the law protects his or
her__________________ _________________ by the implementation of the
fiction that the nasciturus is regarded as having been born at the
time of his or her_____________ whenever it is to his or her advantage.
if it appears in a specific case, that the nasciturus already been born,
, he or she would have has certain claims or rights, the legal position
is kept in _____________ until the unborn child does in fact become a
person or until it becomes certain that no person has developed
from the nascturus
Answer: potential interests
conception
abeyance
◉ List the two requirements for the application of the fiction
Answer: the child must have been conceived at the time when the
benefit would have accrued to him or her
must subsequently be born alive
◉ write down an example of a situation where the application of the
nasciturus will be to the advantage of only third persons
Answer: where the unborn child would have been entitled to an
inheritance has he or she been born when the testator died. If the
child dies shortly after birth, the nasciturus fiction will not come into
operation, because the only person to benefit from its application
would be the child's intestate heirs and not the child himself or
herself
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ name the two classes of subjects recognized in SA?
Answer: Natural persons and juristic
◉ Is a Monstrum regarded as a legal subject in our law today?
Answer: yes, any form of human life is regarded as a legal subject
◉ is a partnership regarded as a jusistic person in our law?
Answer: no, it is not
◉ Study unit 4.2 : Registration of births
Answer: Heaton p 8-12 (lees deur)
◉ Study unit 5
Answer:
◉ Interests of the unborn child
Answer: The nasciturus fiction
,◉ nasciturus
Answer: conceived but unborn child
◉ nasciturus fiction
Answer: unborn child is regarded as a living person, although it has
not been born yet
◉ abeyance
Answer: the position of being without, or of waiting for, an owner or
claimant.
the interests are kept aside until the child is born, and at birth
receives the interests
◉ nasciturus must benefit
Answer: there is a condition that it must be to the unborn child's
advantage
◉ Wherever a situation arises where it would be to the advantage of
the nasciturus if he or she already been born, the law protects his or
her__________________ _________________ by the implementation of the
fiction that the nasciturus is regarded as having been born at the
time of his or her_____________ whenever it is to his or her advantage.
if it appears in a specific case, that the nasciturus already been born,
, he or she would have has certain claims or rights, the legal position
is kept in _____________ until the unborn child does in fact become a
person or until it becomes certain that no person has developed
from the nascturus
Answer: potential interests
conception
abeyance
◉ List the two requirements for the application of the fiction
Answer: the child must have been conceived at the time when the
benefit would have accrued to him or her
must subsequently be born alive
◉ write down an example of a situation where the application of the
nasciturus will be to the advantage of only third persons
Answer: where the unborn child would have been entitled to an
inheritance has he or she been born when the testator died. If the
child dies shortly after birth, the nasciturus fiction will not come into
operation, because the only person to benefit from its application
would be the child's intestate heirs and not the child himself or
herself
