What is CIVIL LAW? Definition of CIVIL LAW in Black's Law Dictionary - Legal dictionary - Glossary of legal terms.
"Civil Law," "Roman Law" and "Roman Civil Law" are convertible phrases, meaning the same system of jurisprudence.
That rule of action which every particular nation, commonwealth, or city has established peculiarly for itself; more properly called "municipal" law, to distinguish it from the "law of nature," and from international law. See Bowyer, Mod. Civil Law, 19; Sevier v. Riley, 189. Cal. 170, 244 P.323, 325.
That division of municipal law which is occupied with the exposition and enforcement of civil rights as distinguished from criminal law.
The system of jurisprudence held and administered in the Roman empire, particularly as set forth in the compilation of Justinian and his successors,—comprising the Institutes, Code, Digest, and Novels, and collectively denominated the "Corpus Juris Civi/is,"—as distinguished from the common law of England and the canon law.
The word "civil," as applied to the laws in force in Louisiana, before the adoption of the Civil Code, is not used in contradistinction to the word "criminal," but must be restricted to the Roman law. It is used in contradistinction to the laws of England and those of the respective states. Jennison v. Warmack, 5 La. 493.
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