South African law of sale

The South African law of sale is an area of the legal system in that country that describes rules applicable to a contract of sale (or, to be more specific, purchase and sale, or emptio venditio), generally described as a contract whereby one person agrees to deliver to another the free possession of a thing in return for a price in money. == Definition and essentials of the contract == === Definition === The contract of sale, as it is known in South Africa today, derives its origins from the Roman consensual contract of emptio venditio.

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