Law of Persons
and
Family
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Lily Ngulube
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Hello loves,
Welcome to my Law of Persons and Family (LOPF5131) crash course!! Thank
you for purchasing my Law of Persons notes and I hope they help you reach
your academic goal for this module.
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Love
Lily
Lily Ngulube
, ۶ৎ Table of Contents ۶ৎ
۶ৎ Preface ۶ৎ.................................................................................2
۶ৎ Table of Contents ۶ৎ...................................................................3
Defining Words and Concepts Used in the Law of Persons..................... 14
What is the Law of Persons?..................................................... 14
Definition and Context.........................................................14
Scope of Law of Persons....................................................... 14
Why the Law of Persons is important.......................................15
Legal Concepts and their Interconnections.....................................15
Law of Persons...................................................................15
Natural Person................................................................... 15
Legal Person......................................................................15
Legal Subject..................................................................... 16
Legal Subjectivity................................................................16
Legal Personality................................................................ 16
What are Rights, Duties and Legal Objects?....................................17
Rights.............................................................................. 17
Duties..............................................................................17
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, Legal Objects..................................................................... 17
Real Rights vs Personal Rights vs Personality Rights......................... 18
The Relation Between Legal Rights and Duties................................19
Legal Rights...................................................................... 19
Legal Duties...................................................................... 19
Interrelationship................................................................. 19
Physical things vs Performance Interests vs Personality Interests..........20
Relevance of Bill of Rights to Law Persons....................................20
What happens when laws are unconstitutional?............................... 21
Common Law Rules and Unconstitutionality..............................21
Statutory Rules and Unconstitutionality:................................... 22
Section 36: Limitation of Rights:.............................................22
What happens when existing laws infringe on the rights contained in the
Bill of Rights?........................................................................ 23
Challenging Unconstitutionality.............................................. 23
Declaration of Invalidity:...................................................... 23
Remedies.......................................................................... 23
Balancing Rights and Public Interest:........................................24
Parliamentary Response:....................................................... 24
Different Forms of Capacity.......................................................24
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