Civil Law in United Kingdom

Definition of Civil Law

In accordance with the work A Dictionary of Law, this is a description of Civil Law : 1. The law of any particular state, now usually called *municipal law.

2. Roman law.

3. A legal system based on Roman law, as distinct from the English system of *common law.

4. *private law, as opposed to *public law, military law, and ecclesiastical law.

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• Civil Law in the Encyclopedia of Britain
• Civil Law in the Osborn’s Concise Law Dictionary
• Civil Law in the Halsbury’s Laws of England
• Civil Law in the Stroud’s Judicial Dictionary of Words and Phrases
• Civil Law in the Jowitt’s Dictionary of English Law
• Civil Law in the New Oxford Companion to Law
• Civil Law in the Words and Phrases Legally Defined
• Civil Law in the Oxford Dictionary of Law

Definition of Civil Law

Law involving disputes which do not amount to crimes.