This thesis set out to determine the degree to which the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act is in line with the objectives of South Africa's land reform policy with regard to the promotion of access to land and security of tenure, and to determine to which extent the Act has contributed to land reform. South Africa's history of denial of land rights by dispossession and forced removals made the regulation of evictions imperative. Before this, black people had no recource when they were forced off land that they occupied, or even owned, for decades. The purpose of the Act is &quot / to provide for the prohibition of unlawful eviction / to provide for procedures for the eviction of unlawful occuiers / and to repeal the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act 52 of 1951&quot / .

Unlawful assembly accounts extracted from the Fredericksburg Mayor’s Court Order Books from 1821-1834, reveal rare glimpses of unsupervised, alleged illegal interactions between free and enslaved individuals, many of whom do not appear in other records. Authorities enforced laws banning free blacks and persons of mixed race from interacting with enslaved persons and whites at unlawful assemblies to keep peace in the town, to prevent sexual relationships between white women and free and enslaved black men, and to prevent alliance building between individuals. The complex connections necessary to arrange unlawful assemblies threatened the town’s safety with insurrection if these individuals developed radical ideas opposing the existing social order, the foundation of which was slavery. Akin to residents of areas where natural disasters like volcanoes always pose a risk of dangerous eruptions, those living in Fredericksburg lived their lives within the town slave society and its potential threats. In an area, state, and region where insurrections occurred, unlawful assembly, whether frequent or infrequent, mattered.

O padrão de desenvolvimento urbano observado nas grandes cidades brasileiras é conseqüência direta das desigualdades socioeconômicas encontradas em nossa sociedade. A ação livre do mercado imobiliário, aliada à ausência de uma política habitacional voltada para a produção de habitação de interesse social, traz para a informalidade no acesso à terra urbana grande parcela da população. As restrições impostas pela legislação ambiental tornam as áreas ambientalmente protegidas não atrativas ao mercado imobiliário formal. Nessas áreas, a proliferação de assentamentos informais é um reflexo da segregação espacial a que está submetida grande parcela da população não atendida pelo mercado formal. Os crescentes números da informalidade observados nas cidades brasileiras justificam a busca por soluções que viabilizem tanto a inserção dos assentamentos irregulares na cidade formal quanto o enfrentamento do passivo ambiental, considerando que importante parcela dessa informalidade se concentra em áreas urbanas ambientalmente protegidas, como as Áreas de Preservação Permanente. Esta pesquisa visa à análise e compreensão do conjunto de questões envolvidas no processo de regularização fundiária de assentamentos informais que contêm em seus limites áreas de preservação permanente em especial os loteamentos irregulares e clandestinos. Para isso, serão abordados o papel desempenhado pelos cursos dágua e fundos de vale nas cidades brasileiras, e as mudanças no padrão de intervenção em rios urbanos observadas no cenário internacional nas últimas décadas. A questão da sustentabilidade e do desenvolvimento urbano sustentável, tema recorrente na atual legislação ambiental e urbanística, será analisada tendo em vista seus diversos conceitos e contradições envolvidas. A análise da crescente tensão entre as agendas urbana e ambiental tem como enfoque a produção da informalidade no uso do solo urbano e sua relação com a degradação ambiental. Serão também abordados os aspectos ideológicos envolvidos nesse conflito. A temática da regularização fundiária de parcelamentos irregulares e clandestinos e a definição do termo área de preservação permanente serão analisados sob a ótica da legislação urbanística e ambiental. A abordagem será feita sobre o que é considerado irregular de acordo com os termos da lei, as diversas concepções de regularização fundiária e os procedimentos envolvidos, enfocando principalmente os processos relativos ao Estado de São Paulo. Para as áreas de preservação permanente, será apresentado um histórico legal sobre o tema. Por fim, a apresentação de estudos de caso visa estabelecer quais seriam as especificidades dos procedimentos para regularização em APPs, em comparação com assentamentos que não possuam APPs em seus limites, indicando quais as principais questões e entraves apresentados e se a legislação vigente permite a efetivação da regularização fundiária nesses casos. Serão ainda indicadas as perspectivas futuras, abordando o tratamento dado à questão na revisão da Lei nº 6.766/79 (PL 20/2007) e Lei nº 4.771/65 (PL 3.517/2008), além dos Grupos de Trabalho do CONAMA que estudam a elaboração de nova resolução que definirá parâmetros para a recuperação e revegetação em APPs. / The pattern of urban development observed in major Brazilian cities is a consequence of socioeconomic inequities in our society. Unrestrained land market action coupled with the absence of social housing policies brings a large amount of people on to informal urban land access. Restrictions imposed by environmental laws make protected areas not attractive to formal land market. Proliferation of informal settlements in these areas is, therefore, a reflection of spatial and socioeconomic segregation. The increase of informality in Brazilian cities justifies the quest for solutions to allow urban insertion of informal settlements and at the same time to deal with environmental liabilities, since a significant number of these kind of settlements is concentrated in environmental protection zones located in urban sites, such as permanent preservation areas. This research goal is to analyze and understand all the issues on land regularization process of informal settlements that contain permanent preservation areas within its boundaries. This work studies the role played by water courses in Brazilian cities development and the changes occurred in worldwide strategy patterns on interventions in urban rivers. Sustainability and sustainable urban development, as a recurring subject on current environmental and urban Brazilian legal framework, will be a matter under discussion for its several different concepts and all the contradictions involved. The ever-growing tension between urban and environmental agendas is focused on informality on urban land use and its relationship with environmental degradation. This work will also approach the ideological issues involved in this conflict. Urban land regularization and the definition of permanent preservation area will be analyzed from urban and environmental legal point of view. Our approach will be based on what is considered unlawful in legal terms and the different concepts and procedures involving urban land regularization, mainly focusing on the procedures in the State of São Paulo (Brazil). A legal history review on permanent preservation areas will be also presented in this work. Finally, case studies are introduced in this work in order to show the current application of specific procedures for settlements located in permanent preservation areas. Through comparisons with procedures applied on settlements which do not have these areas within its boundaries, the acquainted hitches and obstacles will be discussed and so will be under discussion if the current legal framework do actually allow effective urban land regularization in such cases. It will be also presented prospectives by analyzing how these issues have been dealt in current debates about the revision of urban and environmental legal framework.

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Originally, the first stream of the proportionality criteria demonstrates a greater relation to the negative garantism, reflecting a moment in time when the State adopted a more passive behaviour. However, in light of the atrocities committed during the Second World War, it became clear the need of an effective State intervention given tha t the governmental passive attitude, limited to the mere legislation of fundamental rights in a piece of paper, proved not to be enough. Combined with such paradigm shift, there has also been an evolution in the concept of legal garantism, which turned positive, enabling the rise of a second stream of the proportionality criteria, which aims to prevent abuses against fundamental rights. Considering this new historical environment, depending on the interests involved on the specific case, the criminal illegal evidence pro societate is admitted. Analyzing case law, it is evident that, sometimes, the need to protect core values of the society reveals to be preponderant. In such cases the proportionality criteria is not utilized, so that proofs that initially would be treated as illegal, become lawful, protecting by these means higher valuable social fundamental rights. Not only, but sometimes there is not even need to talk about collisions of values in the case and the lawfulness of proof is unquestioned. In this perspective, the case law admits certain institutes and theories - such as the random knowledge, for example - in order to relativize that proof that before could be considered illegal. Thus, it is precisely in this context that criminal illegal evidence pro societate finds shelter. / De efeito , a vedação às provas ilícitas é uma regra constitucional que assegura um leque de direitos fundamentais, mas não é instransponível. Dentre os mecanismos aptos a flexibilizar a regra disposta no artigo 5º, inciso LVI, da Constituição Federal Brasileira de 1988, há o critério da proporcionalidade, responsável por realizar uma ponderação de interesses à luz do caso concreto. Para tanto, é imprescindível atentar-se às vertentes desse critério. A primeira delas assegura a proteção dos indivíduos contra eventuais excessos perpetrados pelo Estado. A segunda vertente, por sua vez, tutela a sociedade enquanto destinatária das diretrizes do Estado Social , de forma a proibir a proteção deficiente dos direitos fundamentais também de natureza social. A rigor, a primeira face do critério da proporcionalidade guarda relação com o garantismo negativo, momento, este, em que o Estado assumia uma postura passiva. Em momento posterior, no entanto, sobretudo diante das atrocidades cometidas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, verificou-se a necessidade de intervenção estatal eis que a postura passiva do Estado de tão somente positivar os direitos fundamentais não se revelou suficiente. Com tal mudança de paradigma, houve também uma evolução no conceito de garantismo jurídico, que passou a ser positivo, proporcionando, destarte, a ascensão da segunda vertente da proporcionalidade que visa a coibir as condutas atentatórias aos direitos fundamentais. No entanto, após análise jurisprudencial, resta evidente que, por vezes, a necessidade de proteger valores essenciais à sociedade é primordial, de modo que o critério da proporcionalidade não é utilizado para a ponderação de interesses no caso concreto e; simplesmente, à luz desse mencionado caso concreto, aquela prova, que outrora poderia ser considerada ilícita, transforma-se em lícita, com o nítido desiderato de coibir a aludida proteção deficiente dos demais direitos fundamentais. Não apenas, mas, por vezes, não há sequer que se falar em colisões de valores no caso concreto e, por conseguinte, em ponderação de interesses -, de modo que a licitude da prova resta inquestionável. Nessa perspectiva, a jurisprudência pátria admite determinadas teorias e institutos como o do conhecimento fortuito - a fim de relativizar aquela prova que antes poderia ser considerada ilícita. Destarte, é justamente nesse contexto que a prova ilícita penal pro societate encontra guarida.

Le devoir de désobéissance de l'agent public est envisagé en tant qu'il constitue une obligation juridique, c'est-à-dire une «technique sociale» au service d'un certain nombre de choix politiques. La thèse propose de construire des instruments d'analyse susceptibles de produire une topographie générale de l'objet en droit et dans le discours sur le droit. Ils doivent permettre d'identifier et clarifier un certain nombre de questions soulevées par l'existence de ce type d'objet en droit positif, parfois obscurcies par les rapports souvent intuitifs qu'on l'imagine entretenir avec des questionnements moraux fondamentaux. Pour ce faire, le travail de recherche met précisément en œuvre une analyse des fonctions, des structures, et des critères de mise en œuvre de l'obligation en droit interne, en droit international pénal et dans les droits nationaux étrangers. L'étude fait alors apparaître la diversité des dispositifs existants, met au jour certaines dynamiques de la discussion doctrinale et contentieuse, et confirme en définitive l'impossibilité «d'essentialiser» l'objet. Elle permet d'envisager une proposition de modification des dispositifs existants en droit interne. / The duty of disobedience of the public official is envisaged as constituting a legal obligation, that is, as a "social technique" serving a number of policy choices. The thesis proposes to build analytical tools that can produce a general topography of the object in la and in the discourse on the law. It must identify and clarify a number of issues raised by the existence of this type of object in positive law sometimes obscured by the intuitive relationships that we imagine it has with fundamental moral questions. To do this, the research thesis specifically implements an analysis of the functions, structures, and criteria for implementing the obligation in domestic law, international criminal law and foreign national law. The study then shows the diversity of existing obligations, reveals certain dynamics of the doctrinal and contentious debate, and finally confirms the impossibility of "essentializing" the object. It makes it possible to envisage a proposal for modification of the existing systems in domestic law.

This thesis set out to determine the degree to which the Prevention of Illegal Eviction from and Unlawful Occupation of Land Act is in line with the objectives of South Africa's land reform policy with regard to the promotion of access to land and security of tenure, and to determine to which extent the Act has contributed to land reform. South Africa's history of denial of land rights by dispossession and forced removals made the regulation of evictions imperative. Before this, black people had no recource when they were forced off land that they occupied, or even owned, for decades. The purpose of the Act is &quot / to provide for the prohibition of unlawful eviction / to provide for procedures for the eviction of unlawful occuiers / and to repeal the Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act 52 of 1951&quot / .

Univ., Diss.--Frankfurt (Main), 2005.

This thesis investigates the role of prior use in common and statutory trade mark law. In the United States a pertinent requirement is priority of use. In the United Kingdom and South Africa, a reputation must be present. In the United Kingdom a plaintiff is required to have goodwill in the country, but in the United States and South Africa it is not required. The conception of a mark does not qualify for protection. It is not required that a business must have actually entered the market. In the United States the general approach is that a plaintiff will not receive protection in a remote area, but regard must be had to zones of natural expansion. British and South African law is the same, and protection may be obtained in areas where there is no trading. Where a dual reputation exists, neither party will be able to act against the other. The mere fact that the user of a mark was aware of the use thereof by another person, does not exclude protection. A trade mark application can be opposed on the basis of another application, combined with use of a mark, or on the ground of prior use. In some instances the fact that a mark has been filed will influence the burden of proof. In general, a registration can be expunged on the same grounds as would constitute grounds of opposition. The concurrent use of a mark can form the basis for the registration of a mark. In the United States, the use must have taken place prior to the filing date of the other party, but in the United Kingdom and South Africa, prior to the own filing date. In the latter two countries, knowledge of a mark is not necessarily exclusionary. Prior use is generally accepted as a defence to an infringement action. It is, however, noted that in various countries, it is only use prior to the relevant date that will be protected, and there is not necessarily a right to extend the scope of use concerned. / Mercantile Law / LL.D. (Mercantile Law)

Text in Afrikaans / Theft in South African law is one of the most well-known common law crimes. It is also one of the crimes in respect of which opinions vary considerably. Furtum possessionis is one of the manifestations of the crime of theft at common law. The general requirements of furtum possessionis were already established in Roman law. Emphasis was not placed on the taker of the thing but on the particular position of the person who was deprived of the property. This approach was also followed in Roman-Dutch law. Fur tum possessionis in South African law can be defined as follows: It is the unlawful and intentional appropriation by the owner or someone else of a movable corporeal thing in commercio, in circumstances in which the possessor of the thing has a valid right of retention of the thing, with the intention of depriving the possessor permanently of control of the thing. Theft in the form of furtum possessionis differs in an important respect from theft in the form of the removal of a thing. In the case of removal the complainant can also be a person acting as a holder, that is someone exercising control of the thing on behalf of the owner. In the case of furtum possessionis the complainant is the person with the right of retention and from whose possession the thing is taken away. The accused either possesses the thing as an owner or as a holder before possession of the thing was transferred to the complainant. Mere possession is not enough. The possession of the complainant has to be accompanied by a right to retention. Furthermore the possession of the thing has to be lawful / Criminal and Procedural Law / LL.M. (Criminal & Procedural Law)

Indecent assault consists in an unlawful and intentional indecent assault which is and is intended to be indecent. There is some controversy in the case law whether the indecency is committed only by acts which are, objectively speaking indecent, against the view that even though the act is not indecent itself, may nevertheless found a conviction of indecent assault if it was the intention of the accused to act indecent and such intention was conveyed to the victim. It is submitted that the last mentioned approach is to be preferred but that the following test should be used: 1. If the act, is objectively speaking indecent and there is no doubt about the unlawfulness as well as the indecent intention of the accused, the crime of indecent assault was committed. 2. If the act is objectively speaking indecent but the indecent intention of the accused can not be proven, there is a rebuttable presumption that the accused acted with an indecent intention. Such as presumption must be rebutted b the accused himself. 3. If the act is not objectively speaking, indecent but the indecent intention of the accused can for example be proven by the accused confession to such an intention, the act became indecent. / Text in Afrikaans / Law / LL.M.