Civil law, as opposed to criminal law, is the branch of law dealing with disputes between individuals and/or organizations, in which compensation may be awarded to the victim. For instance, if a car crash victim claims damages against the driver for loss or injury sustained in an accident, this will be a civil law case. Civil law courts provide a forum for deciding disputes involving torts (such as accidents, negligence, and libel), contract disputes, the probate of wills, trusts, property disputes, administrative law, commercial law, and any other private matters that involve private parties or organizations including government departments. The objectives of civil law are different from other types of law. In civil law there is the attempt to right a wrong, honor an agreement, or settle a dispute. If there is a victim, they get compensation, and the person who is the cause of the wrong pays, this being a civilized form of, or legal alternative to, revenge.
Bristolville is an unincorporated community in central Bristol Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 44402. It lies at the intersection of State Routes 45 and 88. The community is part of the Youngstown–Warren–Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. One of the more notable natives of Bristolville is John Henrie Kagi, who fought with John Brown in Bleeding Kansas. He was second in command on Brown's Harper's Ferry raid, where he was killed at the age of 24. Kagi's sister, Barbara Kagy Mayhew and her husband Allen Mayhew were Bristolville natives who migrated to Nebraska City, Nebraska. Their 1855 cabin there is now the Mayhew Cabin museum recognized by the National Park Service as a station on the Underground Railroad.