Definitions for civil-law

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civil-law civil law

Civil-Law is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in civil-law (-aciillvw).

Definitions for civil-law

noun

1. the body of laws of a state or nation regulating ordinary private matters, as distinct from laws regulating criminal, political, or military matters.
2. Roman History. the body of law proper to the city or state of Rome, as distinct from that common to all nations. Compare jus civile.
3. systems of law influenced significantly and in various ways by Roman law, especially as contained in the Corpus Juris Civilis, as distinct from the common law and canon or ecclesiastical law.

Origin of civil-law

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425

Examples for civil-law

But it was enforced not so much by civil law as by religion.

The kind of verbal threats the civil law considers wrongful are those that unconditionally threaten immediate bodily harm.

Whereas settlers are subjected to Israeli civil law, Palestinians are subjected to martial law.

In the civil law, was where the thing pledged remained with the debtor.

In 1847 professor of civil law at Cambridge; 1850, called to the Bar.

The object of civil law is to regulate the relations of men to each ether.

Crimes “perpetrated with a minor by a cleric” fall under church jurisdiction, not civil law enforcement.

As for civil law, I would have thee know the digests by heart.

I cannot invoke the civil law to do more than to say that it shall be a day of rest.

The proportion of criminal to civil law is exceedingly different.