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Definition of Civil law
1. Noun. The body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation.
Examples of category: Case Law, Common Law, Precedent, Complaint, Accession
Generic synonyms: Jurisprudence, Law
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Antonyms: International Law
2. Noun. The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.
Examples of category: Addiction, Novate, Stipulate
Generic synonyms: Legal Code
Definition of Civil law
1. Noun. (legal) Roman law based on the ''Corpus Juris Civilis''; it contrasts with common law. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; it contrasts with criminal law, military law and ecclesiastical law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Civil Law
Literary usage of Civil law
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, John Melville Gould, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1901)
"Rule of the civil law. — By the civil law, the right of property was not vested in
... (a) Pothier endeavors to vindicate this principle of the civil law, ..."
2. Leviathan: Or, The Matter, Form, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiastical by Thomas Hobbes (1885)
"For the knowledge of particular laws belongeth to them that profess the study of
the laws of their several countries ; but the knowledge of civil law in ..."
3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"Roman civil law had never wholly perished. But the revival of interest in its
... The systematic study of the civil law produced a desire to reduce to a ..."
4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"(3) The law of ancient Rome (see CODE). (4) The law of modern Europe built upon
the Koman civil law, as distinguished from that ..."
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