/library/oar/handle/123456789/72645 2025-12-24T13:29:40Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/72617 Title: The Law Journal : Volume 3 : Issue 2 Abstract: The Law Journal was, at the time, the first and only local legal publication on our island. Its existence was indicative of a lacuna, one which academics would not fill. It took a group of law students, balancing their studies and other commitments, to organise such a publication. 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/72616 Title: Editorial [The Law Journal : Volume 3 : Issue 2] Abstract: THE Law Society welcomes all the new students who intend to take up law as a c:areer and we assure them that "their society" is always ready to help with their difficulties and to encourage that ''earnestness and assiduity" which are the basis upon which the legal prestige and the social advancement of a country are based. 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/72615 Title: News and views Abstract: News and announcements from the Malta Law Students' Society. 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/72614 Title: Some thoughts on the pre-eminence of Roman Law Abstract: MANY of you will have already heard the saying that if Greece has given us the statue, Rome has given us the obligation and I daresay that few of us have considered that these two great relics of the past share a particular quality in common: namely their solidity; for, while the Greek statue is in itself an expression of solidity, in matter and in design, the Roman viculurn iuris is in itself a powerful tie, a ligatio of the very person, solid in content and in form. Of course, the Roman legal heritage does not consist only in the law of Obligations; however, in the general notion of the obligation, I am at present visualising the binding force of all law, since in all its manifestations, speaking generally, law does not do any more than create rights and correlative obligations. It is by means of the existence and enforcement of the obligation that we see law put into effect and it is exactly in that quarter that our greatest debt to the Romans lies. In point of fact, the obligation is the legal counterpart of the well-known Romana fides which was a solid rock on which Roman Republican civilization reclined. 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z