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civil law
noun as in law of citizens' rights
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When Palestinians fight back, the army prosecutes them under military law, while settlers, if they’re prosecuted at all, are subject to civil law.
Salmond, who died of a heart attack in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia, was suing the government for misfeasance - a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.
The authority of immigration agents to provide security or conduct civil law enforcement activities is legally uncertain.
There has always been immense pressure for a settlement, because the curve of civil law bends so strongly in that direction.
But Texas lawmakers, intent on being the first to enact a ban with teeth, had already passed a harsh civil law using a novel legal strategy that circumvented Roe v.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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