Holland v Holland

JurisdictionSouth Africa
Citation1973 (1) SA 897 (T)
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7 practice notes
  • Form over function? The practical application of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 1998 in South Africa
    • South Africa
    • Acta Juridica No. , August 2019
    • 15 August 2019
    ...the rationale for suchregistration: ‘Marriage . . . confers on the parties a status of a public character ’. See also Holland vHolland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T) 899F–H: ‘marriage . . . is part of the jus publicum . . . [it] is thus ofinterest to the State....’32Herbst and Du Plessis (n 13). See s......
  • Bell v Bell
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...contention that the applicable H law is the law of the forum, and which sought to gain comfort from certain dicta in Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T), is without prospect of success. It is clear beyond doubt and has been clear for more than 70 years that in the absence of an antenuptia......
  • Simon NO v Air Operations of Europe Ab and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...(4) SA 479 (W) at 486B Hix Networking Technologies v Systems Publishers (Pty) Ltd 1997 (1) SA 391 (A) at 403D—G H Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T) at 899D Kalil v Decotex (Pty) Ltd 1988 (1) SA 943 (A) at 979 Kibe v Mbhoko and Another 1958 (1) SA 364 (O) Ex parte Kirsten 1921 CPD 608 Le......
  • Chinatex Oriental Trading Co v Erskine
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...(1910) 31 NLR 402: followed Eilon v Eilon 1965 (1) SA 703 (A): followed Goodman v Goodman (1903) 20 SC 376: followed Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T): dictum at 904C--D Johnson v Johnson 1931 AD 391: followed H Ex parte Jones: In re Jones v Jones 1984 (4) SA 725 (W): dictum at 727D app......
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6 cases
  • Bell v Bell
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...contention that the applicable H law is the law of the forum, and which sought to gain comfort from certain dicta in Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T), is without prospect of success. It is clear beyond doubt and has been clear for more than 70 years that in the absence of an antenuptia......
  • Simon NO v Air Operations of Europe Ab and Others
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...(4) SA 479 (W) at 486B Hix Networking Technologies v Systems Publishers (Pty) Ltd 1997 (1) SA 391 (A) at 403D—G H Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T) at 899D Kalil v Decotex (Pty) Ltd 1988 (1) SA 943 (A) at 979 Kibe v Mbhoko and Another 1958 (1) SA 364 (O) Ex parte Kirsten 1921 CPD 608 Le......
  • Chinatex Oriental Trading Co v Erskine
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...(1910) 31 NLR 402: followed Eilon v Eilon 1965 (1) SA 703 (A): followed Goodman v Goodman (1903) 20 SC 376: followed Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T): dictum at 904C--D Johnson v Johnson 1931 AD 391: followed H Ex parte Jones: In re Jones v Jones 1984 (4) SA 725 (W): dictum at 727D app......
  • Ex parte Inkley and Inkley
    • South Africa
    • Invalid date
    ...most important unit of our social life, the family.' On the role of the Courts in this regard Boshoff J observes in Holland v Holland 1973 (1) SA 897 (T) at 899G: 'The highest considerations of social order and morality render it desirable that any alteration in the relations between husban......
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