Meaning of civil law in English
civil law | Business English
US shareholders are suing the company under civil law for deliberately misleading investors.
Examples of civil law
civil law
If the number of people using this tool grows, it means they are choosing to be governed by civil law and not religious law.
From The Atlantic
Cash seizures can be made under state or federal civil law.
From Chicago Daily Herald
With the first option, he had civil law on his side.
From National Geographic
They still have the freedom to define marriage in civil law as the union of one man and one woman.
From Heritage.org
They still have the right to define marriage in civil law as the union of one man and one woman.
From Heritage.org
The one thing that should keep casualties low is that under civil law, yakuza bosses can be sued for damages committed by their underlings.
From CNN
This is due, in part, to the fact that civil law states heavily regulate legal proceedings.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Common law systems are better at enforcing contracts than civil law systems.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Even in the law, at least the civil law, we see the same pattern.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Undoubtedly with the help of civil law, the normative ethos toward theft of personal property has also changed.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In civil law systems, however, the court-appointed expert plays a crucial role.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
They are further restrained by predominantly civil law perceptions of the judicial role in government, a role of democratic deference to the elected parliament.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
An interconnected global legal system, embracing elements of criminal, commercial, and civil law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In both reports, experts in civil law considered the implications of the request for preoperative investigations and implementation of the recommended protocols.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
