Maryna holds the BA, LLB, LLM degrees and is an Executive Consultant at the Cape Town branch of STBB. She is an admitted Attorney, Notary Public, Conveyancer and Insolvency Practitioner with many years of experience in the fields of property law, conveyancing and the laws relating to corporate compliance (especially in respect of the FICA and POPIA laws). Up until 2018 she was also head of the firm’s national marketing portfolio. She is a seasoned public speaker and presenter, both in person and online. She prepares text for the majority of STBB’s internal and external publications and is editor and co-writer for two pivotal publications in the South African real estate industry – the ABC of Conveyancing (JUTA) and Delport’s South African Property Law and Practice (JUTA).

Property Law Update | Issue 34 – 2017

SALE AGREEMENT ‘STANDARD’ WARRANTY: APPLICABLE TO PERSON SIGNING O.B.O. A TRUST?

Goldex 16 (Pty) Ltd v Capper NO and Others (24218/2013) [2017] ZAGPJHC 305 (18 October 2017)

The facts of this matter make for a textbook example of things that can go awry when the basic requirements of dealing with a trust as a party to a transaction are not adhered to. The sale agreement was void as the trust’s representative signed it without first obtaining the written authority to do so from the other trustee. The seller then sought to hold the trustee, in his personal capacity, bound to the agreement by relying on the ‘usual’ warranties clause contained in agreements pertaining to natural persons signing on behalf of entities (i.e. that the signatory warrants that he is “authorised to enter into the agreement on behalf of the trust, that all conditions had been complied with by the trust in order to make the agreement binding,” and so forth). Could he do so?

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The Judgment
Summary of the Judgment

 

STBB’S STSMA REFERENCE GUIDE

In this, the forty-third set of notes for your STSMA Reference Guide, Prescribed Management Rule 22 is discussed.

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Prescribed Management Rule 22
(N.B. Print in landscape)

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