The Law of Delict in South Africa, third edition, offers an introduction to the general principles of delictual law. Comprehensive in scope, while clear and concise, the text provides a rich contextual framework which supports understanding and application of the principles.

Features:

• The text offers a progressive discussion of the law of delict, analysing the extent to which the common law of delict reflects the diverse, multicultural values of South African society, and proposing a framework for continuing, inclusive development of the common law. In addition, the third edition offers a deeper critical discussion of the relationship between common law principles and the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
• The third edition draws critical connections between established principles of delictual law and the rapidly-developing technological context. Discussions, which relate and apply principles to the context of modern technologies, are integrated throughout the text.

This second edition of Extinctive Prescription aims to reflect the law as developed by judgments and statutory changes over a period of more than twenty years since the publication of the first edition.

The principles of extinctive prescription have been scrutinised by the courts in numerous reported cases over this period, including prominent judgments of the Constitutional Court dealing with the justification for extinctive prescription, the concept of ‘debt’, and the knowledge requirement for prescription to begin to run. This edition also examines the principles governing the co-existence of the 1969 Prescription Act and prescription or time limitation provisions in other statutes, with reference to certain prominent examples. A new chapter 12 deals with procedure.

Reported cases continue to illustrate the practical importance of extinctive prescription and the thorough analysis of theory and policy required for its application.

Deliktereg in Suid-Afrika is n ryke bron wat n lewendige en toeganklike inleiding tot die beginsels van die deliktereg bied. Deur die gemeenregtelike, statutere en grondwetlike komponente van die deliktereg saam te snoer, verskaf hierdie werk alle noodsaaklike gegewens binne die bestek van een, omvattende bron. Dit is op die leergang van die voorgraadse LLB-kursus toegespits, om as n deeglike en leersame oorsig van al die belangrike onderwerpe van hierdie dissipline te dien. Die samestelling van die boek weerspieel die logiese en sistematiese proses wat gevolg moet word wanneer mens n deliktuele aangeleentheid moet oorweeg, of daarvoor moet voorberei. Dit onderskei duidelik tussen die grondliggende aksies wat hierdie dissipline ten grondslag le, te wete die actio legis Aquiliae, die Germaansregtelike aksie en die actio iniuriarum. Deliktereg in Suid-Afrika het verskeie eienskappe wat daarop gemik is om n onafhanklike, kritiese en denkende omgang met die vakge bied te bevorder, waardeur die waarde daarvan as studentehandboek verhoog word. Die boek is ook n nuttige bron vir regspraktisyns wat opheldering verlang oor nuwe ontwikkelinge binne, of wesenlike beginsels van, die deliktereg.