Prof MJ de Waal
BComm LLB LLD (Stell)
mjdw@sun.ac.za
Fields of specialisation:
Law of succession and law of trusts
Modules taught:
LLB: Law of Succession
LLM: Law of Trusts
Publications
1. Journal articles
- "Mandament van spolie" (1984 (47) Tydskrif vir Hedendaagse Romeins-Hollandse Reg (THRHR) 115)
- "Accessio deur die verbinding van roerende sake in historiese perspektief" (with CG van der Merwe) (1986 (49) THRHR 66)
- "Die tydstip vir die vasstelling van die identiteit van intestate erfgename" (1988 (51) THRHR 97
- "Vicinitas of nabuurskap as vestigingsvereiste vir grondserwitute" (1990 Tydskrif vir die Suid-Afrikaanse Reg (TSAR) 186)
- "Plakkery en die mandament van spolie" (with JC Sonnekus) (1990 TSAR 514)
- "Die vereistes vir die vestiging van grondserwitute: 'n herformulering" (1990 (1) Stellenbosch Regstydskrif/Law Review (Stell LR) 171)
- "Die passiwiteitsvereiste by grondserwitute en die skepping van positiewe serwituutverpligtinge" (1991 TSAR 233)
- "Die aard van die trust in die Suid-Afrikaanse reg – skikking na aanleiding van behoefte?" (with L Theron) (1991 TSAR 499)
- "Perpetua causa (permanente grondslag) as vestigingsvereiste vir grondserwitute" (1991 (54) THRHR 717)
- "Onderverdelingsvoorwaardes, beperkende voorwaardes en die toepassing van tradisionele serwituutregreëls" (1992 (3) Stell LR 59)
- "Anomalieë in die Suid-Afrikaanse trustreg" (1993 (56) THRHR 1)
- "Repudiation of benefits on succession on behalf of minors" (1993 (4) Stell LR 232)
- "Die moderne aanwending van grondserwitute: eiendomsreg en die beheer oor die ontwikkeling van ander saaklike regte" (1995 TSAR 193)
- "Die bevoegdheid van 'n trustbegunstigde om onafhanklik van die trustee 'n regsgeding in verband met 'n trust te voer" (1997 TSAR 148)
- "The social and economic foundations of the law of succession" (1997 (8) Stell LR 162)
- "Die wysiging van 'n inter vivos trust" (1998 TSAR 326)
- "The liability of co-trustees for breach of trust" (1999 (10) Stell LR 21)
- "Die strekwydte van trustees se beleggingsbevoegdheid" (1999 TSAR 370)
- "Numerus clausus and the development of new real rights in South African law" (1999 (3) Electronic Journal of Comparative Law at http://law.kub.nl/ejcl)
- "Authorisation of trustees in terms of the Trust Property Control Act" (2000 (63) THRHR 472)
- "The uniformity of ownership, numerus clausus and the reception of the trust into South African law" (2000 (3) European Review of Private Law 439)
- "The core elements of the trust: aspects of the English, Scottish and South African trusts compared" (2000 (117) South African Law Journal (SALJ) 548)
- "In search of a model for the introduction of the trust into a civilian context" (2001 (12) Stell LR 63)
- "Forfeiture of bequests to witnesses in Scotland and South Africa" with RRM Paisley (2002 (13) Stell LR 187)
- "The courts' power of condonation in respect of the execution and revocation of wills: unfortunate new elements of uncertainty" (2004 (121) SALJ 529)
- "The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts" (2007 Annual Survey of South African Law 1055)
- "The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts" (2008 Annual Survey of South African Law 1084)
- "The law of succession (including the administration of estates) and trusts" (2009 Annual Survey of South African Law 1038)
- "The strange path of trust property at a trustee's death: theory and practice in the law of trusts" (2009 TSAR 84)
2. Publications in other journals
Contributor of 49 two-monthly contributions on recent case law in De Rebus (the South African attorneys' journal) from August 1990 to December 1999.
3. Chapters in books
- "Wills and Succession" (with HJ Erasmus) in WA Joubert (ed.) The Law of South Africa (LAWSA) vol. 31 (Butterworths, Durban, 1988) par 105 ff.
- "Law, society and the individual: the limits of testation" in DP Visser (ed.) Essays on the History of Law (Juta, Cape Town, 1989) 300 ff.
- "Servitudes" (with CG van der Merwe) in WA Joubert (ed.) The Law of South Africa (LAWSA) vol. 25 (Butterworths, Durban, 1991) par 36 ff.
- "Servitudes" in R Feenstra and R Zimmermann (eds.) Das römisch-holländische Recht: Fortschritte des Zivilrechts im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 1992) 567 ff.
- "Servitudes" in R Zimmermann and D Visser (eds.) Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa (Juta, Cape Town, 1996) 785 ff.
- "The trust in South African law" in Madeleine Cantin Cumyn (ed.) Trust v Fiducie in a Business Context (Bruylant, Brussels, 1999) 87 ff.
- "Servitudes" in Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds.) A History of Private Law in Scotland: Vol I Introduction and Property (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000) 305 ff.
- "South Africa: Report 2" with JE du Plessis and CG van der Merwe in Vernon Valentine Palmer (ed.) Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide: The Third Legal Family (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001) 145 ff.
- "Trust and Fiduciary Mechanisms" in R Blanpain (ed.) International Encyclopaedia of Laws (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2002) par 922 ff.
- "The law of succession and the Bill of Rights: Private succession and freedom of testation in the light of the Constitution" in Bill of Rights Compendium (LexisNexis Butterworths, Durban, 2003) par 3G1 ff.
- "Law of succession" in CG van der Merwe and JE du Plessis (eds.) Introduction to the Law of South Africa (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, 2004) 169 ff.
- "Identifying real rights in South African law: the 'subtraction from the dominium' test and its application" in S Bartels and M Milo (eds.) Contents of Real Rights (Wolf Legal Publishers, Nijmegen, 2004) 83 ff.
- "Trust law" in JM Smits (ed.) Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham and Northampton, 2006) 755 ff.
- "Comparative succession law" in M Reimann and R Zimmermann (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006) 1071 ff.
- "A comparative overview" in KGC Reid, MJ de Waal and R Zimmermann (eds.) Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007) 1 ff.
- "A European Law of Trusts?" in A Vaquer (ed.) European Private Law Beyond the Common Frame of Reference: Essays in Honour of Reinhard Zimmermann (Europa Law Publishing, Groningen, 2008) 167 ff.
- "Honoré's South African Law of Trusts" in D Visser and M Loubser (eds.) Thinking about Law: Essays for Tony Honoré (Siber Ink, Cape Town, 2011) 38 ff.
4. Books
- Honoré's South African Law of Trusts 5th ed. with E Cameron, B Wunsh, P Solomon and E Kahn (Juta, Cape Town, 2002)
- Erfreg/Law of Succession 4th ed with MC Schoeman-Malan (Juta, Cape Town, 2008)
- Exploring the Law of Succession: Studies National, Historical and Comparative with KGC Reid and R Zimmermann (eds.) (Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007)
5. Book reviews since 2003
- Review of J Smits (ed.) The Contribution of Mixed Legal Systems to European Private Law (Intersentia Publishers, Antwerpen and Groningen, 2001) in (2003) 11 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 211
- Review of L Garb (ed.) International Succession (Kluwer Law International, The Hague, London and New York, 2004) in (2006) 14 Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 220
- Review of M Graziadei, U Mattei & L Smith (eds.) Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005) in (2007) 11 The Edinburgh Law Review 135
- Review of R Becker Die fiducie von Quebec und der trust: ein Vergleich mit verschiedenen Modellen fiduziarischer Rechtsfiguren im civil law (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2007) in (2008) 19 Stell LR 170
6. Papers read at international conferences
- "Trusts: a matter of property or of obligation? The South African law of trusts". XVth International Congress of Comparative Law. Bristol, England. 1 August 1998.
- "The uniformity of ownership, numerus clausus and the reception of the trust into South African law" Conference on Trusts in Mixed legal Systems. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 20 June 1999.
- "The identification of real rights in South African law". Conference on the Contents of Real Rights. Utrecht, the Netherlands. 15 June 2001.
- "Die registrasie van onroerende trustbates: teorie vs praktyk" Ius Commune Congress. Maastricht, The Netherlands. 28 November 2003.
- "The application of real subrogation: perspectives from a mixed jurisdiction". Ius Commune Congress. Leuven, Belgium. 28 November 2004.
- "Executorship vs universal succession: the passing of ownership upon death". Ius Commune Congress. Edinburgh, Scotland. 2 December 2005.
- "A European law of trust?". IV International Congress: European Law Beyond the CFR. Lleida, Spain. 25-26 October 2007.
- "The abuse of the trust (or: "piercing the veil of the trust"): some comparative perspectives". Ius Commune Congress. Leuven, Belgium. 25 November 2010.
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