Branch of private law (outside criminal law) that regulates the patrimonial and personal relations between physical or moral persons.
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Examples for "civil law"
Examples for "civil law"
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The age of majority for most civil law purposes is 18 years.
2
But even then, ecclesiastical law and civil law were never quite one.
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I tried to make the distinction between civil law and religious law.
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Bulloch can be considered as the creator of civil law in Penguinia.
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The civil law has absolutely nothing to say on the marriage question.