A hypothec is a right afforded to a creditor in terms of our law of credit security, which entitles the creditor to retain power or control of a thing owned by the debtor until the obligation owed by ...

Bill n°28 titled An Act mainly to implement certain provisions of the Budget Speech of 4 June 2014 and return to a balanced budget in 2015-2016 (Act) passed on April 20, 2015 and received assent the ...

The First Hall of the Civil Court, presided over by Madame Justice Anna Felice, on March 26, 2015, in the case ‘APS Bank Ltd v MD Holdings and others’, rescinded a public deed and hypothecs granted by ...

The arrest of a ship in Malta by the holder of a maritime hypothec has been declared illegal on appeal, since the ship had been sold to new owners in Jamaica through a judicial sale by auction. In a ...

Plaintiff got married in April 1980. In September 2003, plaintiff found out that defendant had bound himself to stand as a guarantor in solidum and consented to the registration of a general hypothec ...