- Title
- Lazarus in the Constitutional Court: an exhumation of the exceptio doli generalis
- Creator
- Glover, Graham B
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/70678
- Identifier
- vital:29688
- Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/10520/EJC53775
- Description
- A landmark moment in the history of South African contract law was the emphatic interment of the exceptio doli generalis by Joubert JA in Bank of Lisbon and South Africa v De Ornelas 1988 (3) SA580 (A). Throughout most of the twentieth century, the exceptio doli generalis had been viewed as an equitable defence that allowed a defendant to resist a claim for performance under a contract when there was something unconscionable about the plaintiff's seeking to enforce the contract (or a clause thereof) in the specific circumstances of that case (see A J Kerr Principles of the Law of Contract 6 ed (2002) 637ff; P J Aronstam 'Unconscionable contracts: The South African solution?' (1979) 42 THRHR 21; P van Warmelo 'Exceptio doli' 1981 De Jure 202).
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Law Journal, Glover, G., 2007. Lazarus in the Constitutional Court: An Exhumation of the Exceptio Doli Generalis. S. African LJ, 124, p.449., South African Law Journal volume 124 number 3 449 459 January 2007 1996-2177
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