Year: 2026

In Maltese property law, the promise of sale agreement, commonly known as the konvenju, has long been treated as a legal ticking clock. For decades, a rigid interpretation of Article 1357 of the Civil Code fostered what many practitioners came to regard as a procedural trap: if a vendor failed to file a judicial letter […]

In a previous contribution, we had explained that easments, or as we often refer to them, servitudes, are defined as a right established for the advantage of a tenement (dominant) over another tenement (servient) belonging to another person, for the purpose of making use of such other tenement or of restraining the owner from the […]

The Court of Appeal, in a judgement delivered on the 17th June 2025 (Case 65/20) confirmed the decision of the First Court whereby the owner of the airspace was found to have breached the rights of the owners of underlying apartments who had the right of use of the roof. The owners of the apartments […]