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
His tracts demonstrate his familiarity with the classics, civil law, and history.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
The exceptions lie in those states that rested on a civil law, rather than the common law system. 22.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
More specifically, are civil law and common law systems equally effective at preventing violent conflict and ensuring impartial access to dispute resolution?
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
In civil law systems, supreme courts presume that legislative assemblies are the sovereign policymaking body.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
That women rarely make considerable donations, is an observation of the civil law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
An interconnected global legal system, embracing elements of criminal, commercial, and civil law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Its judicial or civil law contained both the moral law and the ceremonial and dietary laws.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Even in the law, at least the civil law, we see the same pattern.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
There may also be legal difficulties with enforcing prudent person regulations, for example in civil law countries.
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
In the continental civil law tradition, individual cases are related to legal codes or constitutions.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
This, however, did not immediately imply that all contracts were merely covered by civil law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Furthermore, private autonomy is not only defined and limited by the rules of private or civil law.
From the Cambridge English Corpus
Most laymen know something of criminal and civil law without ever having seen or heard for mulations of the r ules involved.
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.
