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civil law
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  • Civil law is traditionally divided into three main areas:  property, contract, and tort.
    civil law = the body of law governing relationships between individuals and not involving the state
  • The standard of proof in civil litigation is preponderance of evidence (a greater weight of evidence for than against), which is a weaker standard than absence of a reasonable doubt required for criminal law.
  • Tort law is the part of civil law that is most controversial.
    civil law = the body of law governing relationships between individuals not involving the state, such as the fulfillment of contracts

    (tort law concerns acts of omission)
  • And he had books, too; a tattered dictionary and a mauled copy of the California civil code for 1905.   (source)
    civil code = laws
  • Rob McDuff, an old friend of mine from Jackson, Mississippi, agreed to join our team for the civil litigation.†   (source)
  • When did you become an expert in civil litigation?†   (source)
  • This is complicated, high-dollar civil litigation, and you're already in over your head."†   (source)
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  • The institute runs a teacher-training program, as well as workshops that focus on teaching women their legal rights both in civil law and Islamic law.†   (source)
  • And Pakistan is ruled by civil law, but also by Shariat, which is a system of Islamic law like they have in Iran.†   (source)
  • It often refers to appeals in the course of civil law.†   (source)
  • He was returned to us, since military law and jurisdiction take precedence over civil code.†   (source)
  • Some may be determined in the course of the COMMON LAW and others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†   (source)
  • In all the others, a single judge presides without a jury, following either canon or civil law.'†   (source)
  • In a few years he would be inventing Civil Law.†   (source)
  • Seven times Congress had passed crushing acts against the state to keep it a conquered province, three times the army had set aside civil law.†   (source)
  • They are called fathers and mothers by the civil code, which is puerile and honest.†   (source)
  • Well, you have no civil law, and no criminal law.†   (source)
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  • Consider the whole machinery of the civil law made necessary by these processes; the libraries of ponderous tomes, the courts and juries to interpret them, the lawyers studying to circumvent them, the pettifogging and chicanery, the hatreds and lies!†   (source)
  • He had letters from the Public Health service; from an enterprising Midwestern college which desired to make him a Doctor of Civil Law; from medical schools and societies which begged him to address them.†   (source)
  • At some moments Lebedeff was sure that right was on their side; at others he tried uneasily to remember various cheering and reassuring articles of the Civil Code.†   (source)
  • And what would become of the criminal, O Lord, if even the Christian society—that is, the Church—were to reject him even as the civil law rejects him and cuts him off?†   (source)
  • The reason of this is, that in matters of civil law the majority is obliged to defer to the authority of the legal profession, and that the American lawyers are disinclined to innovate when they are left to their own choice.†   (source)
  • As she approached them, the grim old warriors regarded her with pleasure, for they had a secret pride in the hope of engrafting so rare a scion on the stock of their own nation; adoption being as regularly practised, and as distinctly recognized among the tribes of America, as it ever had been among those nations that submit to the sway of the Civil Law.†   (source)
  • He rendered clear and familiar to himself that vast and tumultuous period of civil law and canon law in conflict and at strife with each other, in the chaos of the Middle Ages,—a period which Bishop Theodore opens in 618, and which Pope Gregory closes in 1227.†   (source)
  • Poets should be lawgivers; that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code and the day's work.†   (source)
  • At Speranski's request he took the first part of the Civil Code that was being drawn up and, with the aid of the Code Napoleon and the Institutes of Justinian, he worked at formulating the section on Personal Rights.†   (source)
  • But the Church, like a tender, loving mother, holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least some one to have pity on him.†   (source)
  • Said I: "I thought that I understood from something that fell from you a little while ago that you had abolished civil law.†   (source)
  • As I said before, the civil law-courts were upheld for the defence of private property; for nobody ever pretended that it was possible to make people act fairly to each other by means of brute force.†   (source)
  • We view our enemies in the character of Highwaymen and Housebreakers, and having no defence for ourselves in the civil law, are obliged to punish them by the military one, and apply the sword, in the very case, where you have before now, applied the halter— Perhaps we feel for the ruined and insulted sufferers in all and every part of the continent, with a degree of tenderness which hath not yet made its way into some of your bosoms.†   (source)
  • For Right is Liberty, namely that Liberty which the Civil Law leaves us: But Civill Law is an Obligation; and takes from us the Liberty which the Law of Nature gave us.†   (source)
  • In all the others a single judge presides, and proceeds in general either according to the course of the canon or civil law, without the aid of a jury.†   (source)
  • From the same mistaking of the present Church for the Kingdom of God, came in the distinction betweene the Civill and the Canon Laws: The civil Law being the acts of Soveraigns in their own Dominions, and the Canon Law being the Acts of the Pope in the same Dominions.†   (source)
  • A technical sense has been affixed to the term "appellate," which, in our law parlance, is commonly used in reference to appeals in the course of the civil law.†   (source)
  • The appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (it may have been argued) will extend to causes determinable in different modes, some in the course of the COMMON LAW, others in the course of the CIVIL LAW.†   (source)
  • The antient Law of Rome was called their Civil Law, from the word Civitas, which signifies a Common-wealth; And those Countries, which having been under the Roman Empire, and governed by that Law, retaine still such part thereof as they think fit, call that part the Civill Law, to distinguish it from the rest of their own Civill Lawes.†   (source)
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