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If I have a 1 year contract to live in a house, and the owner solds the house, how long before they can kick me out?
The supplied sources do not state how long a tenant with a one-year residential lease may remain after the owner sells the house, nor do they prescribe an eviction notice period. The cited provisions concern instalment sales of land, insolvency/execution, and sale-contract formalities-not residential leases or eviction. 12356
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Sale of Land on Instalments Act 72 of 1971
(3) When land sold under a contract is attached by virtue of a writ of execution against the immovable property of the registered owner or when land sold under a contract is registered in the name of any person in respect of whose estate a final order of sequestration or liquidation has been given, and that land is not encumbered by a mortgage bond, that land shall without prejudice to the rights of any person who purchased it from an intermediary, if any, be transferred into the name of the person who has the right to claim transfer of the land and who makes arrangements to the satisfaction, as the case may be, of the deputy sheriff or the messenger of the court, before the land is sold in...
Sale of Land on Instalments Act 72 of 1971
(2) Subject to the provisions of any law or the common law under which certain juristic acts which an insolvent has entered into before the sequestration or liquidation of his estate, may be rescinded by a court of law, the trustee or liquidator of the estate of an insolvent who is the registered owner of land which has been sold under a contract, or the judgment creditor of a registered owner who has by virtue of a writ in execution against the immovable property of the registered owner attached land which has been sold under a contract, shall call upon the purchaser, or upon the intermediary or upon both, as the case may be, by written notice if the address of the purchaser or of the inter...
Sale of Land on Instalments Act 72 of 1971
(2) Subsection (1) shall not be construed in such a manner as to prevent the seller from taking steps to protect the land and improvements thereon or, after notice as required by the said subsection, from claiming specific performance. Sale in execution of land which has been sold under a contract, and death or insolvency of registered owner of such land
National Heritage Act 27 of 2004
contract of sale of the whole or any part of that place or object must notify the Council in writing of the prescribed information about that contract at least 30 days before the contemplated date of conclusion of the contract. Amendment or removal of item on Register
Sale of Land on Instalments Act 72 of 1971
commencement of the Sale of Land on Instalments Amendment Act, 1975, shall contain a provision whereby (a) any person who acted on behalf of the seller in connection with the conclusion of the contract or the negotiations which preceded the conclusion of the contract, is appointed or deemed to have been appointed as the agent of the purchaser; or (b) the purchaser, if he fails to fulfil any obligation in terms of the contract, forfeits any claim in respect of necessary expenditure he has incurred, with or without the authority of the registered owner or seller of the land, in regard to the preservation of the land or any improvement thereon or in respect of any improvement which enhances t...
Formalities in respect of Contracts of Sale of Land Act 71 of 1969
BE IT ENACTED by the State President, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Republic of South Af rica, as follows:- Formalities in respect of contracts of sale of land and certain interests in land