Beware of what you sign!
“caveat subscriptor” is a Latin legal phase and principle incorporated in Roman Dutch law which is the foundation of South African law. It means that the person signing a document is responsible for reading and understanding what a document entails before signing it, and shouldn’t afterwards plead that he never understood.
This is somewhat taken advantage of by companies such as cellphone companies who ask you to sign a 6-page contract in tiny lettering while they hold your new phone in the other hand. No one actually reads what they are signing, but they rely on that Latin principle in later holding you to the small print in the document. You have been warned! I have even seen some contracts where the small print is printed in grey ink, not black, to make it more difficult or discourage you from reading it.
This becomes more important when you are buying or selling large value items such as property, and you should always ask your lawyer to check the document for you to discuss the implications, particularly because of the type of things that can go wrong and the expense involved in getting out of the mess.