1) Justinian code
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n. 1) a body of laws and legal concepts which come down from old Roman laws established by Emperor Justinian, and which differ from Englishcommon law, which is the framework of most state legal systems. In the United States only Louisiana (relying on the French Napoleonic Code) has a legal structure based on civil law. 2) generic term for non-crimi...
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[area] Civil law in Continental law (civil law in broader sense) is a branch (body) of law which is the general part of private law. The basis for civil law lies in a civil code. Before enacting of codes, civil law could not be distinguished from private law. After that some special areas of private law began to develop, such as commercial ...
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[common law] In England and Wales, civil law means non-criminal law. It is a branch of the law. The law relating to civil wrongs and quasi-contracts is part of the civil law. The law of property is embraced by civil law. Civil law can, like criminal law, be divided into substantive law and procedural law. The rights and duties of individual...
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[legal system] Civil law (or civilian law, roman law) is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of late Roman law, and whose most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law. This can be contrasted with common law systems wh...
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(from the article `procedural law`) Paralleling the common-law changes described above, civil-law systems underwent several periods of reform in the 19th century, rationalizing ... On the Continent, the revived study of classical Roman law had an immense influence upon the developing law of contract. It stimulated the ... ...peculiar...
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the law of continental Europe, based on an admixture of Roman, Germanic, ecclesiastical, feudal, commercial, and customary law. European civil law ... [33 related articles]
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Concerned with the relationship between individuals. A civil action is generally brought by the person who has been injured or otherwise suffered loss as the result of a wrong which only directly affected him (e.g. trespass to private land). Usually the claim will be for compensation
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A branch of law conferring rights on individuals and allowing redress against the wrong doer.
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Legal system based on Roman law. It is one of the two main European legal systems, English (common) law
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A law which does not deal with criminal aspects.It is rules maintained and followed by the society to legally bind the wrong doers.
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the law about how matters between individuals or groups of people should be settled - e.g., what happens if you buy something in a shop that fails to work, or make a will
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Laws regulating the behaviour of individuals; a form of private law.
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(1) A generic term for all non-criminal law, usually relating to settling disputes between private citizens. (2) A body of laws and legal concepts derived from Roman law as opposed to English common law, which is the framework of most state legal systems. In the United States only Louisiana, relying on the French Napoleonic Code, has a legal struct...
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Civil Law (jus civile) among the Romans was a term nearly corresponding to what in modern times is implied by the phrase positive law, that is, the rules of right established by any government. They contradistinguished it from natural law (jus naturale), by which they meant a certain natural order followed by all living beings; also from the genera...
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n] - the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation
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noun the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation
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Legal system based on Roman law. It is one of the two main European legal systems, English (common) law being the other. Civil law may also mean the law relating to matters other than criminal law, such as contract and tort
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the body of laws of a state or nation regulating ordinary private matters, as distinct from laws regulating criminal, political, or military matters. · the body of law proper to the city or state of Rome, as distinct from that common to all nations. Cf. jus civile. · systems of law influenced significantly and in various ways by Roman ...
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