Hassam v Jacobs NO and Others [2008] ZAWCHC 37 in the High Court of South Africa, Cape of Good Hope Provincial Division
Court membership
Judges sitting
Langa CJ, Moseneke DCJ, Cameron J, Mokgoro J, Ngcobo J, Nkabinde J, O’Regan J, Sachs J, Skweyiya J, van der Westhuizen J and Yacoob J
Case opinions
As a consequence of the constitutional right to equality, the word "spouse" as used in the Intestate Succession Act, 1987 includes the surviving partners to a polygamous Muslim marriage.
Decision by
Nkabinde J (unanimous)
Hassam v Jacobs NO and Others, an important case in South African family law and law of succession, was heard in the Constitutional Court of South Africa on 19 February 2009 and decided on 15 July 2009. It concerned the proprietary consequences of polygynous Muslim marriage in the context of intestate succession.
In a unanimous opinion written by Justice Bess Nkabinde, the Constitutional Court held that it was inconsistent with the right to equality to deny polygynous Muslim spouses the rights of intestate inheritance and maintenance that were granted to other surviving spouses. Such spouses were therefore entitled to a portion of their deceased spouse's estate under the Intestate Succession Act, 1981. The judgment extended the ruling in Daniels v Campbell, which had come to the same conclusion in respect of monogamous Muslim spouses.
HassamvJacobs NO and Others, an important case in South African family law and law of succession, was heard in the Constitutional Court of South Africa...
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Lawson also painted images of the building, as did Paul Cornoyer and Childe Hassam. Lithographer Joseph Pennell, illustrator John Edward Jackson, and French...
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in Jimmy Carter's and Ronald Reagan's. The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam and Working on the Statue of Liberty by Norman Rockwell flanked the Resolute...
Machine Toorawa, S. 2007. The medieval Waqwaq islands and the Mascarenes. Hassam Toorawa Trust, Port Louis, Mauritius Auguste Toussaint, Histoire des îles...
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Singer Sargent Frederick Arthur Bridgman Mary Cassatt Edward Redfield Childe Hassam Hiram Powers Franklin Simmons Randolph Rogers Thomas Ball Augustus Saint-Gaudens...
John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, John Henry Twachtman, and Maurice Prendergast. The New York art world took...
of a family were discovered. A 17-year-old boy, later named as Muhammad Hassam Ali, is stabbed to death in Birmingham city centre in what police believe...
including Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Lilla Cabot Perry, Theodore Robinson, Edmund Charles Tarbell...
century American Impressionism, as practiced by artists such as Childe Hassam and Frank W. Benson, became a popular style. Edward Hicks, Peaceable Kingdom...
painter Joseph Glasco, abstract artist Brion Gysin, multimedia artist Childe Hassam, painter David Hockney, artist Alain Jacquet, artist Jasper Johns, painter...
worth mentioning the work of John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, and Childe Hassam. Sargent was an admirer of Velázquez and Frans Hals, and excelled as a social...
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