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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Introductory Principles}}  \tn
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{\bf{1. Incorporeal Things}} & An intangible thing. Example: Usufrunct/Servitude (a limited real right) which can itself be the object of a real right (i.e. a right of real security) \tn 
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{\bf{2. Quasi Possession}} & While cannot physically possess a right, the use of it = quasi possession. These causes typically involve the right to use something (i.e. servitude to draw water. Complaint: water cut off) \tn 
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{\bf{3. Mandament not based on 'merits'}} & MVS only concerned with with ius possessiondis. Facto probanda must be proved in terms of quasi possession \tn 
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{\bf{4. Challenge when the thing is a right}} & Dont we need to look at the right itself in order to see whether the plantiff was in possession of said right? \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Introductory Principles (cont)}}  \tn
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{\bf{5. Can't use MVS to claim contractual performance}} & You need to sue in contract for specific performance and prove merits of case in courts. \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{So: Contract to draw water in return for R20/day = contractual remedy} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{Has Praedial servitude to draw water = quasi possession = MVS} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{But how can we KNOW if B's right is a contractual right or a servitude if we don't investigate the right?   Don't we need to look at the merits?} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{History of protection of quasi-possession}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{It's accepted that the possession of incorporeals essentially consists of the exercise of the professed right. To prevent the exercise of such a {[}professed{]} right = spoliation.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{How to protect exercise of a right unless there IS a right? Before plaintiffs had to prove the professed right to prove quasi possession of the right. {\emph{Kleyn}}: wrong approach, it requires the court to look at the merits.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Bon Quelle v Municipality Otavi (authority)}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Town drew water from Otavifontein, owner cuts water off. Municipality brought MVS against him} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Bon Quelle argued town must prove right to water "because we are not dealing with recovery of corporeal property but recovery of respondent's alleged right. Thus it is necessary to prove the existence of the right that has been allegedly interfered with.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Argument rejected:  Applicant's ius possidendi never considered in MVS. MVS is an urgent application to restore the status quo. Return to court later to consider of merits of the dispute} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Before respondent exercised powers of a servitude holder, believing he did bc of servitude. This is the status quo to be restored until court sits.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{So, with Quasi Possession of Servitude}}} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{You do not need to prve you really do have a legal right, but rather just possession of the servitude. You do this by proving factual use of the servitude:} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{-Prove that you exercised powers of servitude holder as if you really had a servitude.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Then prove unlawful dispossession} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Courts permit use of the MVS to protect use rights which arise from contract when the personal right is (Freedman):} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Right of Use} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- And this use-right is "an incident of possession" of the tangible property. Interference with use-right = interference with possession of the tangible thing itself} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Incident of {[}physical{]} possession cases}}: In terms of USE of a THING ({\emph{Kleyn}})} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Premises are occupied \& provided w services. Dispute leads to one party terminating these services through self-help which interferes with an incident of their possession of premises.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Naidoo v Moodley {[}incident of possession case{]}}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{M had a contract of lease- incl. provision of electricity.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Dispute over the lease  - N cut electricity - M brought the MVS to have electricity supply restored} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{N argued M demanding specific performance - MVS not appropiate remedy} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Use of the electricity was an "incident of occupation" of the premises -  M did physically occupy (or possess) the premises: Occupied the residence -  physically present x using its appurtenances (power).} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{He {[}quasi{]} possessed this use right by actually using it} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Contractual dispute: Telkom stopped providing the telephone lines - Xsinet brought MVS to have lines restored} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- This was a contractual dispute, not incident of possession} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Led to unnecessary confusion, because contractual rights CAN give rise to USE rights that CAN be protected by the mandament, provided that are an incident of possession} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{S owned and managed a caravan park, supplied with water by CityofCT for 37 years in terms of contract - Dispute about water bill after water meter defective - Did not pay water bill - City cut water in terms of water bylaws \& debt collection bylaws-S brought the MVS} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{City Argued}}: Contractual Dispute, not unlawful dispossession bc summary termination of water provided for in the City's water bylaws and debt collection laws} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Was dispossession unlawful? }}: Held:  unlawful: City didnt comply with s 4(3)(a) of Water Services Act: disconnection to be "fair and equitable".+ City failed to follow dispute resolution procedures = Thus insufficient justification for the disconnection} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Residents forced to contract with City if they want municipal water but right to water is not just an ordinary contractual right. Not only personal rights bc these rights absorbed by statutory rights in terms of the Water Services Act, which put into operation the right to water in s 27.  Thus S had public law rights arising from statute and Constitution independently of the contract {[}ie distinguished Telkom v Xsinet{]}} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The court decided that interference with a public law right to water (arising from statute, and also based on the Constitution) = grounds for the MVS} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{ Para 19}}} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Respondent's rights to water were not merely personal rights flowing from a contract, but public-law rights to receive water, which exist independently of any contractual relationship the respondent had with the City. The respondent's use of the water was an incident of  possession of the property. Clearly interference by the City with the respondent's access to the water supply was akin to deprivation of possession of property} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Academic Comments on Para 19}}} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Freedman}}: Court misinterpreted Impala bc it was based on a real right under the Water Act of 1956. Not clear if {\emph{Strümpher}} was based on incident of possession of property principle (which concerns personal rights) or the real right argument in Impala.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Kleyn}}: Above abt Impala} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Boggenpoel}}: Impala and Strümpher focus on the nature of the right dispossessed and emphasize that not merely contractual. Impala gives impression that mandament available where statutory rights dispossessed; Strümpher seems to expand this to dispossession of constitutional rights. This is in reaction to Telkom v Xsinet, but it seems to detract from the parallel jurisprudence based on use of the service as an incident of possession    In the end, both cases use this principle, but Strümpher does not really examine the facts (ie whether use of the water really was an incident of possession.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{City of Cape Town v Strümpher (cont)}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{General: The danger of focusing on the nature of the rights (in an effort to prove NOT contractual) means is that the court might stray into a consideration of the merits … or will require some kind of proof that the right is not contractual    This is unnecessary because in both Impala and Strümpher {[}and many other cases{]} use of the water/service/resource was an incident of possession and therefore suitable for protection against spoliation even if it DID arise from contract} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Impala Water Users' Association v Lourens}}  \tn
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Dispute between Water Users' Association and the farmers about the price of water - Farmers refused to pay increase - WUA stopped the water - Impala issued MVS - WUA argued this was a contractual dispute - Farmers used MVS.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Not ordinary personal rights but arising from statute.} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Use of the water = "incident of possession" of each farm bc water rights were linked to and registered in respect of a certain portion of each farm, \& used for sugar cane, which was dependent on the water supply . Possession was interfered with my the WUA} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Quasi-possession of the use right is proved by actual use {[}{\emph{Bon Quelle}}{]}  - can use MVS} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{Academic Critique from Keynes}}} \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Why stress rights registered in terms of a statute?  Even if merely contractual,  the right of use that = incident of possession of the farms.} \tn 
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