CIVILLAW

Civil law

Civil 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 whose intellectual framework comes from judge-made decisional law which gives precedential authority to prior court decisions on the principle that it is unfair to treat similar facts differently on different occasions .

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civil law

Noun

  1. Roman law based on the Corpus Juris Civilis; it contrasts with common law.
  2. The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; it contrasts with criminal law, military law and ecclesiastical law.


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