Antonym: criminal, law. Similar words: civil, uncivil, civilian, civilize, civil war, civility, civilized, civil right. Meaning: n. 1. the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation 2. the legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
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1. The lecturer said that civil law was different from criminal law.
2. You have a remedy in civil law.
3. The lecturer continued that civil law was different to criminal law.
4. The civil law position is less problematical.
5. Normal practice in civil law countries is very different.
6. The more formal civil law tradition requires international service to be initiated by specified officials.
7. The civil law deems that the victim did not intend.
8. Many civil law systems find room for oral evidence at the eventual hearing.
9. A legal duty should in civil law be the counterpart of a legal right.
10. His court was not only one of civil law but dealt sometimes with criminal justice.
11. The civil law, mainly through the torts of trespass and private nuisance, also had a role to play.
12. The civil law provides a framework for the redress of individual grievances.
13. The purpose of the civil law is to compensate; it is the function of the criminal law to punish.
14. At civil law reasonable force may be used to evict a trespasser.
15. At civil law, in fact, he has no right in personam either.
16. Since an exchange's rules are a civil contract, the prosecution only needs to meet the civil law standard of proof.
17. Many of these provisions would be quite unacceptable to a civil law country.
18. There is a basic distinction in the laws of this country between the criminal and the civil law.
19. Moreover, once the elements of theft are satisfied, it does not matter that the victim has no civil law remedy.
20. The accused may be prosecuted under Criminal Law whereas a private individual may be sued under Civil Law.
21. Since nodding can be described only as a formless act, clearly the civil law had no interest in it.
22. Heads of departments and institutions are indemnified by the University in respect of any claims made against them under civil law in connection with safety duties.
23. Secondly, share-pushing raised in acute form a problem which bedevils much of civil law.
24. It must be said that as a matter of civil law the existence of an equitable proprietary interest is doubtful.
25. In post-classical law the traditional procedural scheme of the civil law evaporated, and all claims were heard under the cognitio procedure.
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26. What he would really and truly like was to do this new degree course for Bachelor of Civil Law.
27. In Great Britain, one major judicial system is responsible for criminal law and a second handles civil law.
28. At age sixteen, he had received his doctorate in canon and civil law.
29. Such language would be quite inappropriate if applied to the typical civil law system.
30. The result looks odd: she is guilty in criminal law but not liable in civil law.
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