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civil law

noun as in law of citizens' rights

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Whereas settlers are subjected to Israeli civil law, Palestinians are subjected to martial law.

Crimes “perpetrated with a minor by a cleric” fall under church jurisdiction, not civil law enforcement.

The kind of verbal threats the civil law considers wrongful are those that unconditionally threaten immediate bodily harm.

How were the weak to be protected, and the strong to be restrained, at points beyond the ordinary pale of the civil law?

Civil law, which is God's ordinance, prohibits tampering with any testament of man.

It restored the old French civil law but continued the milder English criminal law already in operation.

After his preliminary studies he went to Oxford, where he became a licentiate of civil law, and took Holy Orders.

We say according to the course of the civil law, and we say according to the course of the common law.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to civil law, such as: justinian code, non-criminal law, and roman law.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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