Civil Law

Definition: Civil Law

Civil Law

Noun

1. The body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation.

2. The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.

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Law

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Synonym: Civil Law

Legality

Equity, common law; lex, lex nonscripta; law of nations, droit des gens, international law, jus gentium; jus civile; civil law, canon law, crown law, criminal law, statute law, ecclesiastical law, administrative law; lex mercatoria.

Crosswords: Civil Law

Books

• From Administrative Authorisation to Private Law: A Comparative Perspective of the Developing Civil Law in the People's Republic of China (reference)

• The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish-America: Including Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Philippine Islands, and the Spanish Civil Code in Force, Annotated and W (reference)

• Copyright, defamation, and privacy in Soviet civil law : de lege lata ac ferenda (reference)

• Von Savigny's Treatise on Possession, Or, the Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law (reference)

• The Civil Law : Including the Twelve Tables, the Institutes of Gaius, the Rules of Ulpian, the Opinions of Paulus, the Enactments of Justinian... in 7 books (reference)

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Periodicals

• California Civil Law Reporter: Law Alert (reference)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Children

Bahrain

The social status of children is shaped by tradition and religion to a greater extent than by civil law. (references)

Civil Liberties

Botswana

Libel is a civil law matter; there are no criminal libel laws. (references)

Tunisia

Generally Shari'a-based civil law is applied only in some family cases. (references)

Discrimination

Netherlands

Under the Equal Treatment Act, complainants may take offenders to court under civil law. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Basic civil law is Roman-Dutch. (references)

Bulgaria

Remedies for violations are provided in civil law. (references)

Human Rights

Jordan

Military judges appear to receive adequate training in civil law and procedure. (references)

Hungary

Military trials follow civil law and may be closed if national security or moral grounds so justify. (references)

Nicaragua

Despite improvements to the criminal law system, the country still lacks an effective civil law system. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

Despite constitutional prohibitions on discrimination, a civil law framework to implement these provisions has not been incorporated to address specific offenses under the Criminal Code. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

Kuwait has a civil law system with Islamic law playing a significant role in personal matters. (references)

Political Rights

Maldives

The Constitution gives Shari'a preeminence over civil law and designates the President as the "supreme authority to propagate the tenets" of Islam. (references)

Women

Madagascar

Spouses can be tried for nonrape abuses, generally under civil law. (references)

Namibia

The law prohibits discriminatory practices against women married under civil law. (references)

Jordan

Civil law grants women equal pay for equal work, but in practice this law often is ignored. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

e drejta civile (civics). (various references)

Danish

civilretten, civilret, privatret. (various references)

Dutch

civiel recht, Burgerlijk Wetboek, burgerlijk recht. (various references)

Finnish

siviilioikeus. (various references)

French

Code Civil, droit civil. (various references)

German

zivilrecht. (various references)

Greek 

αστικό δίκαιο (civics). (various references)

Hebrew 

�"י� י ממו� ות. (various references)

Hungarian

római jog. (various references)

Italian

diritto civile. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

民法 (civil code), 市民法 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しみ�"ほう, み�"ぽう (civil code, commercial broadcast). (various references)

Pig Latin

ivilcay awlay

Portuguese

direito civil. (various references)

Romanian

cod civil. (various references)

Russian 

гражданское право (jus civile, private law). (various references)

Spanish

derecho civil. (various references)

Swedish

civilrätt (common law). (various references)

Turkish

yurttaşlar yasası, medeni hukuk. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: clivia.

-3 letters: cavil, cilia, civil, clavi, iliac, ilial, lilac, villa, villi.

-4 letters: call, claw, ilia, laic, vail, vial, vill, wail, wall, will.

-5 letters: ail, all, awl, caw, ill, lac, lav, law, vac, vaw, via.