Look up civil-law, civil law, or civil laws in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Civil law may refer to: Civil law (common law), the part of law that concerns...

Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world. Modern civil law stems mainly from the...

Civil-law notaries, or Latin notaries, are lawyers of noncontentious private civil law who draft, take, and record legal instruments for private parties...

Bachelor of Civil Law (abbreviated BCL or B.C.L.; Latin: Baccalaureus Civilis Legis) is the name of various degrees in law conferred by English-language...

Civil law is a major "branch of the law", for example in common law legal systems such as those in England and Wales and in the United States, where it...

in comparative law. In civil law jurisdictions, a legislature or other central body codifies and consolidates the law. In common law systems, judges...

parties (the defendant) in a civil court of law. The archaic term "suit in law" is found in only a small number of laws still in effect today. The term...

Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the jus commune that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts...

The Uniform Civil Code is a proposal in India to formulate and implement personal laws of citizens which apply on all citizens equally regardless of their...

ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I. Roman law forms the basic framework for civil law, the most widely used legal system today, and the terms...