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Professor Raymond Mangion, Head of the Department of Legal History and Methodology at the University of Malta, undertakes the unprecedented task in this book of drawing the constitutional and legislative landscape of Malta between the years 1914 and 1933. This he does with attention to detail, rigour and precision. He brings the story to life by interweaving social developments with the evolution of the constitutions and legislation of Malta.

Professor Mangion provides the reader with a dazzling tapestry, full of detail and connections. Themes include the influence of outstanding...

Professor Raymond Mangion, Head of the Department of Legal History and Methodology at the University of Malta, continues his narrative from 1933 to the eve of Independence in 1964. This he does with attention to detail, rigour and precision. He brings the story to life by interweaving social developments with the evolution of the constitutions and legislation of Malta.

He analyses the role of the local Church, the adoption of public, private and criminal laws, the tension between pro-Italian and pro-British feelings and the need to reconcile Imperial defence strategies with the wish...

This book contains four essays:

1. Judicial Importation into Maltese Law of Italian Private Law Solutions and Its Implications

2. Historical Facts and Myths surrounding the Criminal Code of Malta

3. Medieval (Legal) Beasts in our Midst? A Terminological Ad Fontes Look at the Dissolution of Contracts under Maltese Law

4. Latin Wine Decanted into a Semitic Carafe: The Obscure Term “Midheb” in Vassalli’s Lexicon and its Possible Usefulness for the Legal Historian

It is of interest not only to those analysing Maltese law, but also to those...