Private law
The Residential & Market Quarter
Relationships between individuals and entities — persons, families, property, agreements, and the wrongs that pass between them.
The Lifeline
Law of Persons
Legal personality, capacity, status, and domicile — mapped as a journey from birth to death through the landmarks of legal existence.
The Household
Family Law
Engagement, marriage, matrimonial property, divorce, customary and civil unions, children, and domestic violence — a home you build, inhabit and sometimes leave, room by room.
The Exchange
Law of Contract
How binding agreements are formed, performed, and broken — offer, acceptance, and the remedies when a promise fails.
The Court of Wrongs
Law of Delict
Liability for harm wrongfully caused — the elements of a delict and the reach of the Aquilian action.
The Estates
Law of Property
Ownership, possession, and the real rights that attach to things — movable, immovable, and everything registered against it.
The Chapel of Rest
Law of Succession
What becomes of an estate at death — testate and intestate succession, wills, and the administration of the deceased estate.
The Guildhall
Commercial Law
The law of business — companies, partnerships, insolvency, and the instruments that move money through the market.