Requirements for a valid pactum successorium in an antenuptial contract : the curious case of Radebe v Sosibo NO

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Rautenbach, Christa
Van der Linde, Anton

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Juta Law

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This note discusses some remarks made in Radebe v Sosibo NO 2011 (5) SA 51 (GSJ) (hereafter the Radebe case) - a matter heard on appeal in the South Gauteng High Court. The case dealt, in essence, with the question whether a contextual reading of a 'property exclusion clause' in an antenuptial contract could be construed as a valid pactum successorium (succession agreement or pactum de succendo) when one of the parties to the contract died intestate.

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Radebe v Sosibo NO 2011 (5) SA 51 (GSJ), Succession agreement, Pactum successorium, Antenuptial contract

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Rautenbach, C & Van der Linde, A 2012, 'The requirements for a valid pactum successorium in an antenuptial contract : the curious case of Radebe v Sosibo NO', South African Law Journal, vol. 129, no. 1, pp. 22-32.