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Southern Cross: Civil Law and Common Law in South Africa by Reinhard Zimmermann and Daniel Visser. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996, c + 872 + (index) 19 pp (no price stated)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Hector L MacQueen
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Legal Studies , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , July 1997 , pp. 346 - 352
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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1997

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1. ‘In 1831 Wylde was accused of incest with his daughter but was officially exonerated, and in 1835 his wife arrived in Cape Town with a daughter born three years after he had last seen her, in New South Wales’ (S D Girvin, in Southern Cross at p 97).

2. Ex p De Winnaar 1959 (1) SA 837 (N) at 839 per Holmes J; P Q R Boberg ‘Oak tree or acorn? Conflicting approaches to our law of delict’ (1966) 74 South African Law Journal 150.

3. A Sachs The Future of Roman-Dutch Law in a Non-Racial Democratic South Africa: Some Preliminary Observations (1989) p 3 (quoted at p 9).

4. See in addition to p 98 of the book under review S D Girvin ‘William Menzies of Edinburgh: Judge at the Cape 1827–1850’ (1993) JR 279.