CIVIL LAW in a sentence | Sentence examples by Cambridge Dictionary

His tracts demonstrate his familiarity with the classics, civil law, and history.

The exceptions lie in those states that rested on a civil law, rather than the common law system. 22.

More specifically, are civil law and common law systems equally effective at preventing violent conflict and ensuring impartial access to dispute resolution?

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This rule, long enshrined in civil law, was repudiated only in recent times.

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In civil law systems, supreme courts presume that legislative assemblies are the sovereign policymaking body.

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That women rarely make considerable donations, is an observation of the civil law.

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An interconnected global legal system, embracing elements of criminal, commercial, and civil law.

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Its judicial or civil law contained both the moral law and the ceremonial and dietary laws.

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Even in the law, at least the civil law, we see the same pattern.

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There may also be legal difficulties with enforcing prudent person regulations, for example in civil law countries.

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In both reports, experts in civil law considered the implications of the request for preoperative investigations and implementation of the recommended protocols.

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In the continental civil law tradition, individual cases are related to legal codes or constitutions.

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This, however, did not immediately imply that all contracts were merely covered by civil law.

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Furthermore, private autonomy is not only defined and limited by the rules of private or civil law.

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Most laymen know something of criminal and civil law without ever having seen or heard for mulations of the r ules involved.

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The defence failed in its attempt to apply the standards of civil law in the sphere of military justice.

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Can one recognize some lineament of civil law in their practice or skills?

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The latter is necessary, since the predominant principle in civil law is that verdicts hold responsible that party whose guilt is most likely.

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In all areas of civil law, including family law, there is the promise of delivery of better justice.

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Theatrical legislation fell somewhere between the jurisdiction of public and civil law.

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The judges, practitioners of civil law, enjoyed throughout the seventeenth century an exclusive prize jurisdiction over spoils from war at sea.

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Another reason identified in the belief of the superiority of the common law over civil law is the role that lawyers play in common law systems.

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Quite the opposite point of view can be found in lawyers from civil law countries, who may view the common law system as capricious and disorganised.

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To the best of my knowledge there is no such measure that is generated from a government or research organisation in a civil law country. 13.

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Instead, countries normally applied common or civil law justice to all peoples, while trying to integrate the important aspects of customary law into the legal system.

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Thus, the new laws are aimed at moving both countries away from their civil law traditions towards practices that are common in countries of common law origin.

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After some weeks the girl was discovered and pending the trial of the criminal case, her father made a claim to custody of the girl under the civil law.

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Without civil law, therefore, intellectual property differs fundamentally from simple tangible property.

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If there is a greater reliance on the bureaucracy in an inquisitorial system under the civil law, then there will be a less effective application of the law.

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So if, as in the case of the directive on electronic commerce, you take issue with international civil law, the situation becomes very difficult indeed.

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This will involve a wide-ranging agenda including asylum, immigration, police, judicial cooperation in criminal matters and civil law cooperation.

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Obviously this is primarily in civil law countries.

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I have considerable reservations about these environmental issues being dealt with by criminal law rather than civil law, in any case.

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In civil law we have seen it in cross-border matters.

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We are also bringing forward new legislation which develops and strengthens the civil law on domestic violence.

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