Civil law may refer to:
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Civil law (common law), the part of law that concerns private citizens and legal persons
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system originating in mainland Europe and adopted in much of the world. The civil law system is intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, and with core principles codified into a referable system, which serves as ...
, or continental law, a legal system originating in continental Europe and based on Roman law
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Private law, the branch of law in a civil law legal system that concerns relations among private individuals
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Municipal law
Municipal law is the national, domestic, or internal law of a sovereign state and is defined in opposition to international law. Municipal law includes many levels of law: not only national law but also state, provincial, territorial, regional, ...
, the domestic law of a state, as opposed to international law
See also
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Civil code
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Civil (disambiguation)
Civil may refer to:
*Civic virtue, or civility
*Civil action, or lawsuit
* Civil affairs
*Civil and political rights
*Civil disobedience
*Civil engineering
*Civil (journalism), a platform for independent journalism
*Civilian, someone not a membe ...
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Ius civile
Roman law is the legal system of ancient Rome, including the legal developments spanning over a thousand years of jurisprudence, from the Twelve Tables (c. 449 BC), to the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'' (AD 529) ordered by Eastern Roman emperor Justin ...
'', Latin for "civil law"
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Common law (disambiguation)
Common law is a legal system named after judge-made law, which plays an important role in it.
Common law may also refer to:
* Common-law marriage
* ''Jus commune'', a type of broad, underlying law
* ''The Common Law'' (Holmes), an 1881 book by Ol ...
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Criminal law
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