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: --
Most laymen know something of criminal and civil law without ever having seen or heard for mulations of the r ules involved.
Furthermore, private autonomy is not only defined and limited by the rules of private or civil law.
This, however, did not immediately imply that all contracts were merely covered by civil law.
In the continental civil law tradition, individual cases are related to legal codes or constitutions.
In both reports, experts in civil law considered the implications of the request for preoperative investigations and implementation of the recommended protocols.
There may also be legal difficulties with enforcing prudent person regulations, for example in civil law countries.
Even in the law, at least the civil law, we see the same pattern.
Its judicial or civil law contained both the moral law and the ceremonial and dietary laws.
