A written order, addressed to a bank, instructing the bank to pay an amount of money to the person or organisation named on the cheque. The bank takes the money out of the relevant customer’s account.
The legal relationship between two people of the same sex affording them broadly the same rights available to heterosexual couples who choose to marry.
A code outlines the minimum ethical standards of behaviour that are expected of individuals (various professions), including upholding propriety, integrity and ethical values in their conduct.
Contract whereby one party (the lessor) undertakes to grant to the other (the lessee) the temporary use and enjoyment of a thing in return for the latter’s undertaking to pay rent.
Contract in which one person (the seller or the vendor) promises to deliver a thing to another (the buyer or emptor), the latter agreeing to pay a certain price
An admitted attorney who is specialised in property law and who has passed a special examination in order to be admitted and allowed to practice as a conveyancing attorney. Conveyancing attorneys attend to, amongst others, the registration of the transfer of a property from a seller to a purchaser (often referred to as the “transferring attorney”), or to the registration of a purchaser’s mortgage bond on behalf of the financial institution who finances the purchase price (often referred to as the “bond registration attorney”) or to the cancellation of the seller’s existing bond over the property (often called the “bond cancellation attorney”).