The Constitutional Protection and Regulation of Property and its Influence on the Reform of Private Law and Landownership in South Africa and Germany

One: Research Question, Terminology and Methodology.- 1: Introduction.- 2: Terminology.- 3: Legal Comparison and the Course of Inquiry.- Two: Background to the Constitutional Protection of Property in Germany and South Africa.- 4: The Drafting Histories of the South African and German Constitutional Property Clauses.- 5: Structure of the Constitutional Protection and Regulation of Property in Germany and South Africa.- 6: Basic Principles of a Constitutional Order and Interpretation of a Constitutional Property Clause.- Three: The Constitutional Inquiry into Property Protection and its Relevance for the Existing Property Order.- 7: The Relevance of the Concept of Property for Protection Under Constitutional and Private Law.- 8: Constitutional Limitations on Property Rights: Regulation, Expropriation and the Property Order.- Four: The Influence of Social Reform on Land Law in Germany and South Africa.- 9: Meaning of the Constitutional Objective of Land Reform for the South African Property Law.- 10: German Reunification and the Property Order.- Five: Conclusion.- 11: Property in Private Law and its Constitutional Protection and Regulation: Some Considerations.- Summary.- Afrikaanse Opsomming.