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Switch to any value % from this page to resize cheat sheet text: % www.emerson.emory.edu/services/latex/latex_169.html \footnotesize % Small font. \begin{multicols*}{3} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Introduction: Nino Bonino v de Lange}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Lease agreement (contract) between Antonnino Bonino and Klaas de Lange:} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Lange is the owner of the premises} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Bonino can lease the billboard room within lease conditions - but he broke conditions so De Lange barred the door.} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Bonino took De Lange to court {\bf{Mandemant van Spolie}}} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Court ruled this was spoliation as "{\bf{a man cannot take the law into his own hands and dispossess another}}" His remedy is to {\bf{enforce his rights through the courts}}} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- MVS used restores the status quo to before De Lange took law into his own hands} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{What is Possession?}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Corpus}} & {\bf{Animus}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} - Physical Possession: Is there sufficient and effective physical control? & - The mental attitude of possession. Four elements: Possessor: \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 4) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} - This means that the strongest corporeal relationship exists. & 1. Must have capacity to form legal intention \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} - Does not need to be continuous: You control a car if you have the keys. & 2. Must be aware of the fact that they are exercising physical control ({\emph{vd Walt}}). \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 5) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} - Does not need to be excersised personally: you control your car if chauffer takes it as agent & 3. Intention must be directed towards exercising control over the thing {\bf{for themselves}}. \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 5) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} & 4. Specific intention regarding control must be established. ({\emph{Meyer}}) \tn % Row Count 23 (+ 4) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} & - {\emph{Animus Domini}}: intention to own needed for acquisition of ownership \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} & - {\emph{Animus Ex Re commodom acquirendi}}: intention of securing benefit for {\emph{yourself}} not as agent. \tn % Row Count 32 (+ 5) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{What is Possession? (cont)}} \tn % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Largely depends on whether you want to gain or keep control. If you are trying to gain it, you intuitively do not have it} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Manament van Spolie}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{MVS is available when one has been unlawfully dispossessed of property and protects/restores {\bf{possession}}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Speedy remedy in which the court does not consider who has a stronger claim to the thing/owns it.} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The purpose of the remedy is to prevent self help and maintain peace and order. It is a temporary return to status quo while court decides on matter.} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 3) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Facta Pro Banda:} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{1. Peaceful and Undisturbed Possession of Property} \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{2. The respondent dispossessed the applicant by means of {\bf{unlawful self-help (spoliation)}}} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Valid Defences to MVS}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{1. Disprove Facto Probanda}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Not in Possession} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Did not have effective control ({\emph{Mbangi \& Van Rhyn}})} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Did not have correct animus ({\emph{Meyer}})} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Dispossession was not Unlawful self help ({\emph{Sillo}})} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{2. Unreasonable delay in bringing the application}}} \tn % Row Count 8 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{If you wait long to bring case, court assumes you agree to being dispossession. MVS is supposed to be a quick remedy.} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{"Too long" depends on factual circumstances of each case.} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{3. Counter-Spoliation}}} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Limited and reasonable amount of help allowed in defence of property should it occur in OG dispossession and not a new incidence. e.g. Thief snatches bag and you grab it back quickly. ({\emph{Mans \& Ness}})} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 4) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{4. Restoration Impossible}}} \tn % Row Count 19 (+ 1) % Row 11 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Point of MVS is to return to status ho before spoliation. Not possible if they don't have the thing or if it is destroyed ({\emph{Tswelopele}}).} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{2.4885 cm} x{2.4885 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Ius Possessionis and Ius Possidendi}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} {\bf{Ius Possessionis }} & {\bf{Ius Possidendi}} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} Grants possessor right to protection against disopossession & The entitlement to demand control over a thing \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{- Protected by law even if you have no rights to the thing.} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{- For other remedies (ie possessory action) you need to prove a right} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}--} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Invalid defences to MVS}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Anything about the merits of the claim} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Anything about having a stronger right to the thing} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Requirements for MVS}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Peaceful and Undisturbed Possession}}} \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Did the applicant have effective physical control?} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Van Rhyn NO v Fleurbaix Farms}}: Daily jog on someone else farm disturbed when gate was erected. Jog not "effective physical control" of road, thus gate was not spoliation.} \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 4) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Did the applicant satisfy mental element?} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Mbangi v Dobsonville City Council}}: Town constantly demolished erected houses. Civic successfully used MVS. Also indicates that those in the process of dispossessing someone of a thing \& cases in which possession is not yet an accomplished fact. MVS cannot be used.} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 6) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Unlawfully Deprived}}} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Sillo v Naude}}: Former tenants cattle sent to pound in terms of Pound Ordinance. Not spoliation because he invoked aid of law.} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{George Municipality v Vena}}: Should action exceed bounds of legal authority = spoliation. PISA did not necessarily allow removal wo court. Held that onus is on dispossessor to show actions w/o courts were covered by thestatute.} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 5) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Impala Water Users}}: WUA suspended water as charge wasn't paid as allowed by National Water Act. Argued water was like {\emph{Sillo}}. SCA held that WUA had onus of showing that dispossession fell within statute. What was unclear: Whether the water was unpaid as it was undecided what would be a reasonable price for the water. Thus this is spoliation.} \tn % Row Count 29 (+ 7) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}