0 the part of the legal system that relates to personal matters, such as marriage and property, rather than crime
1 the part of the legal system that deals with people's relationships, property, and business agreements, rather than with criminal activity:
US shareholders are suing the company under civil law for deliberately misleading investors.
2 a legal system based on ancient Roman law, which is used in many countries. In this system a court makes decisions based on a set of recorded laws rather than on the decision of a judge or jury:
During that time he could not be silenced by the arm of the civil law.
Even civil law, the great science of the Romans, became interesting in his hands, and was divested of its dryness and technicality.
His tracts demonstrate his familiarity with the classics, civil law, and history.
The exceptions lie in those states that rested on a civil law, rather than the common law system. 22.
More specifically, are civil law and common law systems equally effective at preventing violent conflict and ensuring impartial access to dispute resolution?
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
In civil law systems, supreme courts presume that legislative assemblies are the sovereign policymaking body.
