The lease laws in Malta dissect Maltese tenants into two categories: those that contracted their lease previous to 1995 and those that signed their lease contract after 1995. He defines civil law to be a rule of human action, adopted by mankind in a state of society, or prescribed by the supreme energy of the government, requiring a course of conduct not repugnant to morality or faith, productive of the best political happiness, and prohibiting actions contrary thereto, and which is enforced by the sanctions of pains and penalties.
2. A system of principles and guidelines of human conduct, being the aggregate of these commandments and principles which are both prescribed or acknowledged by the gov- erning power in an organized jural society as its will in relation to the conduct of the members of such society, and which it undertakes to take care of and sanction and to use …