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Department of Commercial Law

Smart Contracts: A South African Perspective. A legal analysis of the possibilities and challenges posed to the recognition and enforcement of smart contracts under the South African law of contract

Abstract

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The advent of electronic commerce has allowed for various transactions to be moved online. Coupled with the dawn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the technological progress which precipitated it, traditional modes of commercial transactions have been disrupted by the options available to actors within the marketplace when executing contracts of a commercial nature

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Department of Commercial Law
Year dc:date.issued
2023

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Esau, Oriana
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  • Naude, Tjakie

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http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39432
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oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/39432

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Esau, Oriana. Smart Contracts: A South African Perspective. A legal analysis of the possibilities and challenges posed to the recognition and enforcement of smart contracts under the South African law of contract. Department of Commercial Law, 2023. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/39432