In 2022, the Marriage Act [Chapter 5:11] and Customary Marriages Act [Chapter 5:13] were repealed and replaced with the Marriages Act [chapter 5:17]. This new Act recognizes four (4) types of marriages which are civil marriages, registered customary marriages, unregistered customary law unions and qualified civil marriages. This article will not focus on qualified civil […]
WILL WRITING IN ZIMBABWE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE A part of the Roman Catholic prayer which says, “Mwari wangu ndinoziva ndinofa, Asi handizive rinhiko? Handizive Seiko? Handizive kupiko …” which can be translated as, “My God I know I will die, But I don’t know when? I don’t know how? I don’t know where?” reminds one […]
BUYING AN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY FROM A DECEASED ESTATE IN ZIMBABWE. WHAT ONE NEEDS TO KNOW AND HOW TO SECURE RIGHTS IN IMMOVABLE PROPERTY PURCHASED. INTRODUCTION Purchasing an immovable property from a deceased estate poses a lot of problems and in many cases, people end up losing their hard-earned money after the sale is considered or […]
People enter into informal loans daily. They borrow and lend each other monies from time to time. More often, these informal loans will not be reduced to writing and will be based on mutual trust. Usually, the debtor (borrower) will not return the money, taking advantage of the fact that the loan was not reduced […]
Introduction While I was in my office on one of the busy days, I received a phone call from one of my longtime friend, an employee who had been unilaterally and without being given an opportunity to present her case and explain her circumstances, transferred from Harare to Mutare. She was inquiring on whether the […]
Introduction The in duplum rule is a common law rule in commercial transactions which provides that when unpaid interest has accumulated until it is equal to the initial capital sum loaned or principal debt, it stops accumulating beyond that point unless outstanding interest is reduced by way of a payment. To illustrate, if A owes […]
More often than not, employers find themselves locked into disputes with employees (former), when the contract of employment, which is the premise of the very existence of the employer-employee relationship is terminated. One of these disputes arises in a situation where an employee refuses to surrender the employer’s property given to the employee during the […]
