Civil

Relating to or affecting a person as a citizen, or relating to or affecting the rights or duties of a citizen, particularly as between one citizen and another; existing or originating among citizens, as civil war; existing in contemplation of law, as, life or death; pertaining to the administration of government, as, civil ofi Bce or by equal laws, as, rights or liberty. Civil action or remedy: an action brought to recover some civil right, or to obtain redress for some wrong, not a crime or misdemeanor. Civil corporations: one of the two classes into which lay corporations are divided; the other division embracing what are termed eleemosynary corporations. Civil deatii: that change of a person's civil condition which is produced by certain acts or offenses on his part, and which extinguishes his civil rights and capacities, as natural death extinguishes his bodily existence. Civil injury: an infringement or privation of some civil right, which is a subject for civil redress or compensation, as distinguished from a crime, which is a subject for punishment Civil law: the Roman law, as comprised in the Code, Pandects, Institutes and Novels of Justinian, and his successors, constituting together what is termed the Corpus Juris Civilis, as distinguished from the canon and common law; that system of law which a community, state or nation establishes for its own peculiar government, municipal law. Civil liberty: the liberty of a member of society, being a man's natural liberty, so far restrained by human law as is necessary and expedient for the general advantage of the public. Civil right: the right of a citizen; a right due from one citizen to another, the privation of which is a civil injury, for which redress may be sought by a civil action.

In American law

Civil damage act: a statute which gives a right of action for damages against a seller of intoxicating liquor, on behalf of the wife or family of the buyer, where they have been injured byieason of his intoxication. Civil rights: various rights of citizenship secured by the thirteenth and fourteenth amendments to the federal constitution.

Jn English law

Civil list: an annual sum granted by parliament, at the beginning of each reign, for the expenses of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state.