Civil Law

Civil law, as a system of law, is different from common law, which is another system of law. The origin of the civil law system of law is ancient Rome...

Civil law is a branch of the law in common law countries. The other branch of common law is criminal law. Civil law is concerned with the duties individuals...

English law, also called common law, is the legal system of England and Wales. It is generally divided into criminal law and civil law. It spread to many...

are similar. In countries that use civil law, their laws are codified, and there is much less reliance on case law. Judges make judicial decisions based...

form of law, for example tribal lands or failed states. Civil law is the legal system used in most countries around the world today. Civil law is based...

subject, forming a legal code (a codex or book of law). Codification is the defining feature of civil law jurisdictions. Ancient Sumer's Code of Ur-Nammu...

Property law covers two types of property in the common law legal system, real property and personal property. In the civil law system, there is a division...

Criminal law is the part of law that is about social norms. People who violate these norms are punished for their violation. It is different from civil law. Criminal...

procedure. American law also borrows ideas from civil law. See Stephen Elias and Susan Levinkind, Legal Research: How to Find & Understand The Law, 14th ed. (Berkeley:...

improve civil order, answer a public need, to codify existing law, or for an individual or company to obtain special treatment. The term codified law is sometimes...

Roman law is the name used for a system of laws used by the Roman Empire. It started with the twelve tablets of civil law, 749 BC. After the law code ordered...

the civil society in courts in situations of unfair governmental distribution of national money is a key element for the success of the rule-of-law in...

is famous for using non-violent protests and civil disobedience (peacefully refusing to follow unfair laws). Activists used strategies like boycotts, sit-ins...

courtyard. A court, in law, is a part of the government in which people come together to decide how to apply the country's laws to a specific situation...

Competition law is a law that stops companies from behaving in an anti-competitive way. Competition law is called antitrust law in the United States,...

states in the US use rules based on the federal rules. China, while a civil law country, has followed much of the US Federal Rules of Evidence in their...

system in the Western World. It is older than the common and European civil law traditions. What began with rules ("canons") adopted by the Apostles themselves...

The law of Azerbaijan is made up of many levels of codified forms of law. The laws of Azerbaijan are based on civil law. As the country was a republic...

sometimes called marriage equality, especially by supporters. Marriage under civil law is presently available to same-sex couples in the following countries:...

Attainder, ex post facto Law. . .' Ex post facto laws relate only to criminal laws passed by legislations. It does not apply to civil laws "that affect private...