The question "what is justice?" is very old. It has occupied legal theorists and philosophers from ancient times to the present day. We could say that it is akin to the question addressed by Pontius Pilate to Jesus Christ in the Praetorium: "What is truth?" However, this book does not aim to continue the search for an answer, which may not even exist.

The author's purpose here is much simpler: It is to try to bring law and legal science closer to the ordinary citizen; to take law from the theoretical level and bring it down to the reality of everyday life; to clarify for the layperson what the rules of law mean and how they are applied every day to a multitude of issues (commercial, economic, family, inheritance, etc.) that arise from people's coexistence in a community.

Although law is directly and inexorably connected to human everyday life, it does not attract interest and trust to the same extent as other social and political sciences, such as history, sociology, philology, art history, etc.

With the ambition to reverse this image, the author attempts, as simply as possible and using many examples, to open a window for the non-lawyer into the "paradise" of legal concepts; to explain the functioning of many institutions; to simplify, as much as possible, legal constructions that seem incomprehensible; and to make it clear that the legislator, while sometimes (or in certain periods) may exaggerate in the production of laws (hence our well-known legislative abundance), generally does not act arbitrarily!

Behind every legislative regulation lies the effort to solve problems of everyday life and to arrange conflicting interests of the members of society. This new edition contains recent legislative changes that have occurred in significant matters, such as the new sales law established in compliance with European Directives, the change in the process of issuing consensual divorce, the establishment of "joint custody" of a child in the event of the divorce or separation of the parent-spouses, the adoption of the new Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure, as well as amendments to regulate several issues related to the organization of the State.