Ex parte Neethling and Others

JurisdictionSouth Africa
JudgeGreenberg JA, Schreiner JA, Van Den Heever JA, Hoexter JA, and Fagan JA
Judgment Date14 September 1951
Citation1951 (4) SA 331 (A)
CourtAppellate Division

E Greenberg JA:

This is an appeal from a decision in the Orange Free State Provincial Division dismissing an application made under sec 87 of the Administration of Estates Act 24 of 1913 for an order authorising the sale of certain property in terms of a deed of sale provisionally entered into between the parties concerned those of them F who are minors being represented by their natural guardians The need for the authority in the case of the minors arises out of the terms of a mutual will made on the 29th January 1945 by the late D J du Plessis and his wife S H du Plessis who is still alive One of the provisions of this will reads as follows:

'(3) Ons bemaak ons plase Schaapkraal No. 225 en Annex-Schaapkraal No. 753, albei geleë in G die distrik Smithfield, aan ons seun Johannes Jacobus du Plessis, onderworpe aan die volgende voorwaardes en bepalings:

(a)

die langslewende van ons sal die lewenslange reg van vruggebruik geniet;

(b)

Ons genoemde seun moet genoemde plase bemaak sodat hulle na sy dood H gaan na een of meer van ons kleinkinders, hetsy sy eie kind of kinders of die kind of kinders van een of albei ons ander kinders, onderworpe aan sulke voorwaardes en bepalings soos hy mag vasstel, en dit word duidelik verstaan dat die keuse van die erfgename of erfgename onderworpe aan genoemde beperking berus by ons genoemde seun;

(c)

Ingeval ons genoemde seun nie die bepaling genoem in sub-paragraaf (b) hierbo nakom nie en afstammelinge nalaat, dan bemaak ons genoemde plase in gelyke dele aan sy afstammelinge by wyse van plaasvervulling, en indien hy geen afstammelinge nalaat nie, dan bemaak ons genoemde plase in gelyke dele aan al ons kleinkinders onderworpe aan die volgende voorwaardes en bepalings:

Greenberg JA

(i)

Die eggenote van ons genoemde seun met wie hy getroud is en saamleef tydens sy dood sal die vruggebruik geniet na die dood van die langslewende van ons totdat die jongste van die kinders gebore uit al ons kinders een-en-twintig (21) jaar oud is of totdat sy genoemde eggenote weer in die huwelik tree, na gelang watter van hierdie twee gebeurlikhede die eerste voorval;

(ii)

A Ingeval een of meer van ons kleinkinders voor die eersterwende van ons te sterwe kom en afstammelinge nalaat, sal die in die plek of plekke van so 'n oorlede kleinkind of kleinkinders optree by wyse van plaasvervulling; en

(iii)

Die bemakings aan ons kleinkinders of hulle afstammelinge sal uitgesluit wees van die gemeenskap van goed en beheer van hulle respektiewe eggenote of eggenotes al trou hulle ook in B gemeenskap van goed.'

It appears from these provisions that a fideicommissum has been created in favour of the grandchildren of the testators and the facts alleged in the petition are to the effect (a) that the son Johannes Jacobus du C Plessis (to whom I shall refer as 'the fiduciary') who is married, has no children, (b) that there are five living grandchildren of the testators of whom one is a major...

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    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...v Commissioner of Child Welfare, Johannesburg, and Others 1965 (1) SA 742 (A): dictum at 745F applied Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): dictum at 335D-E F applied G Paddock Motors (Pty) Ltd v Igesund 197 6 (3) SA 16 (A): considered Reyneke v Wetsgenootskap van die Kaap die ......
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    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...v Department of Land Affairs [2000] 2 All SA 26 (LCC) ([2000] ZALCC 54): dictum in para [15] applied G Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): dictum at 335D – E Farjas (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others; Rainy Day Farms (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Agricu......
  • S v Mokgethi en Andere
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...Mooi E 1985 (1) SA 625 (A); S v De Jager 1965 (2) SA 616 (A); S v Fazzi and Others 1964 (4) SA 673 (A); Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A); S v Marmola 1976 (2) SA 587 (A); R v S 1958 (3) SA 102 (A); S v Ivanisevic 1967 (4) SA 572 (A); S v Anderson 1964 (3) SA 494 (A); S v Si......
  • Randa v Radopile Projects CC
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...Corporation of Monrovia v Minister of Agriculture and Others 1979 (2) SA 1072 (C): referred to G Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): referred Fellner v Minister of the Interior 1954 (4) SA 523 (A): referred to Ferreira Deep Ltd v Olver 1903 TS 145: referred to Fish Hoek Villa......
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  • Naude and Another v Fraser
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...v Commissioner of Child Welfare, Johannesburg, and Others 1965 (1) SA 742 (A): dictum at 745F applied Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): dictum at 335D-E F applied G Paddock Motors (Pty) Ltd v Igesund 197 6 (3) SA 16 (A): considered Reyneke v Wetsgenootskap van die Kaap die ......
  • Florence v Government of the Republic of South Africa
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...v Department of Land Affairs [2000] 2 All SA 26 (LCC) ([2000] ZALCC 54): dictum in para [15] applied G Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): dictum at 335D – E Farjas (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs and Others; Rainy Day Farms (Pty) Ltd v Minister of Agricu......
  • S v Mokgethi en Andere
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...Mooi E 1985 (1) SA 625 (A); S v De Jager 1965 (2) SA 616 (A); S v Fazzi and Others 1964 (4) SA 673 (A); Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A); S v Marmola 1976 (2) SA 587 (A); R v S 1958 (3) SA 102 (A); S v Ivanisevic 1967 (4) SA 572 (A); S v Anderson 1964 (3) SA 494 (A); S v Si......
  • Randa v Radopile Projects CC
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...Corporation of Monrovia v Minister of Agriculture and Others 1979 (2) SA 1072 (C): referred to G Ex parte Neethling and Others 1951 (4) SA 331 (A): referred Fellner v Minister of the Interior 1954 (4) SA 523 (A): referred to Ferreira Deep Ltd v Olver 1903 TS 145: referred to Fish Hoek Villa......
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    • Juta Journal of Corporate Commercial Law & Practice No. , August 2019
    • 16 August 2019
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