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• Attachment is a strong reciprocal emotional bond between an infant and a primary caregiver
• Schaffer and Emerson's 1964 study on attachment aimed to identify stages of attachment and find a pattern in the development of attachment between infants and parents
• Participants in the study were 60 babies from Glasgow, and the procedure involved analyzing interactions between infants and carers
• Findings from the study showed that babies of parents/carers with 'sensitive responsiveness' were more likely to have formed an attachment
• Sources of modern South African Law include legislation, judicial precedent, and customary law, but not modern textbooks
• The Supreme Court of Appeal is a superior court of the Republic
• Regarding legal precedents in South Africa:

  • Every court is bound by the decisions of a court superior to itself within its area of jurisdiction, unless the decision of the superior court is based on an obvious error
  • Every court is bound by the decision of a court of concurrent status within its own area of jurisdiction, unless convinced that the earlier decision was incorrect
  • Every High Court division is bound to follow the decisions of another High Court division unless convinced that the earlier decision was incorrect
  • Magistrates' courts are not bound by the judgments of all superior courts
• The legal personality of a human being comes into existence at birth
• The right to a patent is an intellectual property right
• In a case of injury during a soccer match, the player can rely on self-defense as a ground of justification
• The doctrine of stare decisis states that one division of the High Court is not bound to follow the decision of another, although such decision has a great deal of persuasive authority
• The highest court of appeal for South Africa before it was abolished by Act 16 of 1950 was the Privy Council
• Roman law, English law, and Roman-Dutch law exerted a considerable influence on the development of South African law
• Johannes Voet may truly be described as the father of Roman-Dutch law
• In a case involving adjacent farms, the right to pick flowers from wild Proteas and sell them to tourists is an example of a real right
• In a case involving adjacent farms, erecting a jackal-proof fence that affects the neighbor's Protea bushes is a scenario of real rights in conflict
• Peter relied on the statutory authority ground of justification for cutting down and removing the bushes, claiming it was not unlawful as he acted in terms of the Fencing Act 31 of 1963
• Infringing a person's reputation by making defamatory statements violates their personality right
• In the case of Belle and Dr. Chance, Dr. Chance committed a delict because he acted outside the limits of consent when he allowed the nurse to perform the surgery
• An example of a personal servitude is Mary having the right to live on and cultivate a farm, which belongs to her children, until her death
• Gus' reputation as a famous and respected inventor is an example of a personality right
• John committed a delict when he injured Peter severely during their agreement to have a fist-fight to clear John's debt
• Under the circumstances described, Buti is the usufructuary of the cattle
• Neil's right to personality was infringed by Mark when he called Neil a liar and a child molester in front of others
• An artist's right to his works that prevents others from imitating them is an intellectual property right
• To recover money paid in a mistaken belief that it was due, the correct action to institute is Condictio indebiti
• The correct action to recover monetary loss from damaging Frikkie's car is Actio legis Aquiliae
• Jerry is not delictually liable to Bob for the drying up of his water supply due to sinking a borehole on his property
• The incorrect statement regarding a praedial servitude is that if Benjamin suffers loss due to Mell not allowing him to use the road, he can claim damages from Mell
• The correct statement is that Moloto has ownership of the storeroom and may therefore do with it what he likes
• If a person effects improvements to property with the intention of doing so for his or her own benefit and has no title to the property, the improvements become his or her property
• Florah's negligent driving causing damage to Fanie's car resulted in Fanie suffering patrimonial damage since his estate became smaller than it otherwise would have been
• Schaffer and Emerson's 1964 study on attachment:

  • Aim: identify stages of attachment / find a pattern in the development of an attachment between infants and parents
  • Participants: 60 babies from Glasgow
  • Procedure: analysed interactions between infants and carers
  • Findings: babies of parents/carers with 'sensitive responsiveness' were more likely to have formed an attachment
• Freud's superego is the moral component of the psyche, representing internalized societal values and standards
• The Knights Templar were a Catholic military order founded in the 12th century, known for bravery, skill in battle, wealth, and power; disbanded in the 14th century

  
• Regarding the calculation of damages, Florah may raise the defense that Fanie's damage had been partly extinguished by the payment he got from Slow Insurance Company
• In a legal context, the law of family includes relationships between relatives and parents and children; the law of personality includes relations between people and their physical and psychical integrity, as well as a person's right of privacy
• Sam, in a scenario, can rely on self-defense as a ground of justification for his actions in court
• Ownership passes from one party to another when there is an agreement, payment, and transfer of possession
• Elements of a delict: an act, unlawfulness, fault, causation, and damage or impairment of personality