{"id":37569,"date":"2024-10-31T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T12:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/?p=37569"},"modified":"2024-10-31T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T12:10:27","slug":"property-law-update-issue-23-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-23-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Property Law Update | Issue 23 &#8211; 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>ATTEMPTING REVIVAL OF A SALE AGREEMENT BY WAY OF AMENDMENT<\/h4>\n<p><em>Maria Luisa Palma Codevilla v Paula Jane Kennedy-Smith NO and Others<\/em> (494\/2023) [2024] ZASCA 136 (10 October 2024)<\/p>\n<p>Property sale agreements often have suspensive conditions, allowing a purchaser to indicate his eagerness to buy the property, but granting him time to attend to matters that must be in place before he can fully commit. Very often, the suspensive condition relates to obtaining the necessary financing by a certain time. Time is of the essence here: If the suspensive condition is not met by the due date, the agreement lapses. This is exactly what happened in the above matter; the parties chose to revive the lapsed agreement by concluding an addendum, which amended the original agreement. The Supreme Court of Appeal was asked to decide whether this was allowed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saflii.org\/za\/cases\/ZASCA\/2024\/136.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The judgment can be viewed here<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/stbb_plu23-2024-s1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Summary of the Judgment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTEMPTING REVIVAL OF A SALE AGREEMENT BY WAY OF AMENDMENT Maria Luisa Palma Codevilla v Paula Jane Kennedy-Smith NO and Others (494\/2023) [2024] ZASCA 136 (10 October 2024) Property sale agreements often have suspensive conditions, allowing a purchaser to indicate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-property-law-update"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Property Law Update | Issue 23 - 2024 - STBB<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/stbb.co.za\/dev2\/property-law-update-issue-23-2024\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Maryna Botha\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/property-law-update-issue-23-2024\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/property-law-update-issue-23-2024\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Maryna Botha\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/stbb.co.za\\\/dev2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/623606b2022560795816523a4fd0bfec\"},\"headline\":\"Property Law Update | Issue 23 &#8211; 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