Know A Little Law

By Will Kilian

One of the greatest business philosophers of all time, Mr Jim Rohn, had this to say about the law: “Everyone needs to know a little law; you don’t have to be a lawyer, but you do need to know the basics.” After many years of legal practice, both as a solicitor and a barrister, I came to realize that about 80% of the legal trouble that seems to somehow find the individual, is caused by a lack of legal awareness of a handful of common sense legal principles. There are just a couple of legal basics that every person needs to know in order to avoid or limit disaster. Will it prevent you from ever getting into trouble with the law? Probably not. Will it assist you in avoiding legal trouble as best you can? Absolutely.
The purpose of this book is to assist the average Joe Bloke, the man in the street, to become savvy enough to avoid most of the legal pitfalls that leads to drama in the courtrooms around the world. This book is written at a layman’s level. You don’t need a degree in linguistics or a legal dictionary when you read it. It is written so that parents can teach these principles to their kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Will Kilian
• Release date: Jul 21, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311147912

Will Kilian

Father, husband, lawyer, entrepreneur and writer. Will grew up on a wine farm in the Western Cape in South Africa. He studied at the University of Stellenbosch, obtaining a B.Comm, LLB and LLM (cum laude) degrees. Will started out as a young attorney in the Boland town of Worcester.Since then, he worked as a advocate at the Cape Bar and is currently working as a barrister at the Queensland Bar Association in Brisbane, Australia.Father of two, husband of one.His motto in life is to love. After that, strive to be as happy, healthy and as prosperous as you can possibly be.

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Know a little law…

By Willem J. Kilian

B.Comm LLB LLM (cum laude)

Copyright 2015 Willem J Kilian

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Contracts and Agreements

Chapter 3: Property Law

Chapter 4: Family Law

Chapter 5: Criminal Law

Chapter 6: Torts

Chapter 7: Succession

Chapter 8: Conclusion

About the Author

Chapter 1: Introduction

One of the greatest business philosophers of all time, Mr Jim Rohn, had this to say about the law:

"Everyone needs to know a little law; you don’t have to be a lawyer, but you do need to know the basics."

After many years of legal practice, both as a solicitor and a barrister, I came to realize that about 80% of the legal trouble that seems to somehow find the individual, is caused by a lack of legal awareness of a handful of common sense legal principles.

There are just a couple of legal basics that every person needs to know in order to avoid or limit disaster. Will it prevent you from ever getting into trouble with the law? Probably not. Will it assist you in avoiding legal trouble as best you can? Absolutely.

The purpose of this book is to assist the average Joe Bloke, the man in the street, to become savvy enough to avoid most of the legal pitfalls that leads to drama in the courtrooms around the world. This book is written at a layman’s level. You don’t need a degree in linguistics or a legal dictionary when you read it. It is written so that parents can teach these principles to their kids.

This is not a legal text book or a definitive work on the topic; the purpose is to inform the uninformed; to educate the lay person about some basic legal principles that can and may have a dramatic impact on your life, if kept in mind and applied.

It’s meant to be some sort of a legal road map, showing you where the potholes are and how to avoid them. If you pay close attention to life, you will be able to see these potential legal problems ahead of time. If you apply the principles I am about to share with you in this book, you will have the ability to avoid those legal pitfalls, or most of them anyway and be in a position to better negotiate them.

If however you were not paying attention to life, or for whatever reason did not