Civil
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Used in contradistinction to criminal, or ecclesiastical, or military, or political, or barbarous. Civil action: one grounded on a private right, seeking to enforce it, or to obtain compensation for a private injury. CivU corporation: a lay corporation not eleemosynary; municipal or trading corporations. Civil death: the privation or extinction of a person's legal rights and capacities, as when a man became outlawed, attainted, or entered a monastery. Civil injury: the private wrong resulting from a breach of contract, a tort, or a crime.
Civil lavr: 1.
The Roman law, as expressed by Justinian and his successors; V. Corpus juris civilis.
2.
Municipal law, the law of a nation as distinguished from the law of nations..
3.
Not criminal law
Civil liberty: a man's liberty as restrained by law. CivU list: in England, the sum appropriated for the expenses of the royal household and establishment. In the U. S., the general expenses of the government, except for the army and navy.