This is a book about intriguing aspects of Maltese legal history. Malta is a hybrid Common Law-Civil Law system. The book contains the following 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