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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}{Harris v Assumed Administrator, Estate MacGregor}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{When do intestate heirs obtain their personal rights against the executor of the deceased estate to claim payment of their respective intestate shares? (When does {\emph{dies cedit}} occur?)} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{When a deceased died without leaving a will/leaves an invalid will, dies cedit for the deceased's intestate heirs occurs on the deceased's death} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{When deceased left valid will that took effect on the deceased's death, but became inoperative, either wholly or partially, {\emph{dies cedit}} for the deceased's intestate heirs occurs the moment the will became inoperative} \tn % Row Count 12 (+ 5) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Example}}} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{In valid will A left R10K to B if B completes the first Marathon to take place after A's death (in June 2019). If not, the R10K goes to C.} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 3) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{A died in November 2018. C died in March 2019. B failed to complete marathon.} \tn % Row Count 18 (+ 2) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The bequest of the R10 000 has now become inoperative: B failed to meet the condition for inheritance, and the alternative beneficiary (C) is already deceased} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 4) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{The R10 000 will now be divided amongst A's intestate heirs.} \tn % Row Count 24 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Who these heirs are will be determined in June 2019 and will not be determined retroactively with reference to November 2018 when A died. At this point they obtain {\emph{dies cedit}}.} \tn % Row Count 28 (+ 4) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Unworthiness to Inherit}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Blood relatives may be disqualified from right to inherit if they are found unworthy} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{ The established grounds of unworthiness are:}}} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 1) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Person who murdered deceased cannot inherit from deceased estate} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 2) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- the person who murdered one or more of the deceased's conjunctissimae personae (the persons most closely related to the deceased) cannot inherit from the deceased} \tn % Row Count 9 (+ 4) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- the person who stands to receive an inheritance by reason of a crime committed or other unlawful conduct perpetrated against the deceased cannot inherit from the deceased} \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 4) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{1) Ex parte Steenkamp and Steenkamp }}} \tn % Row Count 14 (+ 1) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- The court found that a deceased's {\emph{conjunctissimae personae}} are generally their parents, spouses and children} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 3) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Therefore}}: Therefore, if A (son) murdered B (A's father), A cannot inherit intestate from C (A's mother) if C subsequently dies intestate. This because A murdered a conjunctissimus of C, B} \tn % Row Count 21 (+ 4) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{ 2) Casey v The Master }}} \tn % Row Count 22 (+ 1) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Husband convicted of culpable homicide (negligent killing) of his wife (married in community of property) wasn't disqualified from receiving half of the joint estate in terms of matrimonial property law.} \tn % Row Count 27 (+ 5) % Row 10 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Husband disqualified from inheriting wife's will because public policy prescribes that culpable homicide should in appropriate circumstances, particularly if the killer acted in a morally blameworthy manner, result in the unworthiness of the killer to inherit from his/her victim} \tn % Row Count 33 (+ 6) \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Unworthiness to Inherit (cont)}} \tn % Row 11 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- The common law recognised negligent killing in appropriate circumstances as a ground for unworthiness to inherit -no reason to believe common law position no longer applies in modern law} \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 4) % Row 12 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\bf{3) Pillay v Nagan}}} \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 13 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Son who forged mother's will (declared invalid) was unworthy to be an intestate heir of his mother} \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 2) % Row 14 \SetRowColor{white} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Based on fact that he sought to deprive his siblings of their share in their mother's estate by making a false will for his mother in which he was the principal beneficiary} \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 4) % Row 15 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{- Public policy demands that someone who sought to defraud others of their rightful inheritance by forging a will should be unworthy of inheriting from the estate of the person whose heirs s/he attempted to defraud} \tn % Row Count 16 (+ 5) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} % That's all folks \end{multicols*} \end{document}