This edition remains a practical guide for the student conveyancer and candidate attorney and is not intended as or claimed to be a legal treatise. Because of the enormous amount of information that exists around this field and the changes in conveyancing practice and procedure, this text restricts itself to the factors salient for the purposes of the conveyancing examination. Examples are given in conjunction with the relevant subject matter to facilitate reference.  This text includes aspects of conveyancing law for use by students for the conveyancing examination.

• History of land survey, tenure and registration in South Africa
• Duties and functions of the Registrar of Deeds and the conveyancer
• Lodgment and linking of Deeds
• Examination, execution and registration of deeds
• Title deeds to land
• Legislation in regard to ownership of land by a person of a particular race
• Deeds and documents: identification of persons, marital status
• Sequence of transfer of land and cession of real rights therein
• Method by which ownership of land can be conveyed from one person to another
• Deeds of transfer
• Certificates and resurveys
• Real and personal rights distinguished
• Deceased estate transactions
• Partitioning of land
• Expropriation of land
• Separation of rights to minerals from land title
• Bonds
• Sectional titles