civil law
8
4.1
- noun
- /ˈsɪvəl lɔː/
- Specialized
:
derecho civil
- The reforms aimed to modernize the civil law system and make it more accessible to the public.
- civil law system
- civil law countries
- civil law tradition
And when those police officers are sued in civil law, my office defends them.
- And when those police officers are sued in civil law, my office defends them.
- Obviously innocence as proven by a court of criminal law and then not by a court of civil law later.
- They live under the same civil law as all other Israelis, which means they have due process and they have free movement.
Examples
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She decided to study civil law because she wanted to help people with legal disputes.
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Many of those cases cannot be arbitrated in civil law countries.
Academic text (1991) -
I do civil law, not criminal law.
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If this is not protected by civil law, then we run into a huge social problem.
Blog text (23) -
I don't do criminal law, I do civil law.
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Let me start by emphasizing the importance of the civil law system in the legal structure of a free society.
Academic text (2004) -
Its legal system continues to be based on the existing Portuguese civil law system at the time of takeover.
Academic text (2007) -
They live under the same civil law as all other Israelis, which means they have due process and they have free movement.
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Unlike their neighbors, both Mozambique and Angola practice civil law rather than common law, a legacy of their Portuguese colonial experience.
Academic text (1998) -
In many countries, disputes between individuals are resolved through civil law rather than criminal law.
How Binding
- Specialized
4
8.9
- Specialized
8
4.1
- Formal
730
3.4
148
1.3
344
3.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'civil' (relating to citizens or private affairs) combined with 'law' yields a law system governing private rights and relations. This concept is expressed similarly across many languages (e.g., French droit civil, Spanish derecho civil), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents is likely to infer the intended meaning.
Etymology
Civil law comes from old Roman rules for citizens. The word civil originally meant about a 'citizen', so civil law became the name for the rules that deal with private rights and problems between people rather than crime.