How to Use civil law in a Sentence

civil law

noun
  • This is not so in many civil law countries.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The matter is a civil law complaint and has to be handled through those channels.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • There's no doubt that the deceased's family will be filing a civil law suit.
    — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
  • In that sense, Mishpatim is not only civil law.
    — Rabbi Bruce D. Forman, Sun Sentinel, 3 Feb. 2026
  • Baha’is do not have recourse to civil law for personal status matters.
    — Doug Bandow, National Review, 2 May 2021
  • The ruling will have ripple effects beyond the civil law courts, where Jameson filed his case.
    — Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • Because the two died in Louisiana, that state’s civil laws applied to the case.
    — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Does this mean religion now tops civil law, and the Civil Rights Act is null and void?
    — Arkansas Online, 5 July 2023
  • Many civil law countries do not recognize trusts in the same way common law jurisdictions do.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • Adultery won’t be treated as a crime, but the court will consider it as a violation of certain civil laws.
    — Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2024
  • At the time, there were only a handful of black lawyers practicing civil law in Dallas, Kirk said.
    — Allie Morris, Dallas News, 7 May 2020
  • Lawyers who practice in the civil law courts are also apparently not included.
    — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • But it was also aimed at eroding the autonomy of Muslims in matters of civil law.
    — Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2019
  • It was determined that the issue was a civil law matter, but the man filled out a police statement to document the problem.
    — Joan Rusek, cleveland, 16 Dec. 2019
  • Dugan worked as a civil law attorney before joining the bench, according to her LinkedIn page.
    — Jacob Rosen, CBS News, 13 May 2025
  • The uptick of fines will be temporary if Oakland starts to cultivate a culture of respecting civil laws.
    — Janani Ramachandran, Mercury News, 22 May 2025
  • This is a common feature of civil law systems, granting one party the right to use and profit from property owned by another.
    — Virginia La Torre Jeker, J.d., Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Scherer now is a partner in the civil law firm that her father founded and has a legal affairs podcast that debuts Sunday.
    — Terry Spencer, Sun Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2024
  • Under English civil law, a claimant who wins a court judgment that is lower than what they were offered to settle, has to pay the legal bills for both sides.
    — Max Taylor, NBC News, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Donnelly, said the termination of parental rights should be considered the equivalent of the death penalty in civil law.
    — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 20 July 2019
  • Jason Cantrell was a lawyer who specialized in criminal defense, civil law, and family law.
    — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Other locations are neutral, with recognition across common and civil law systems.
    — Harsh Patel, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • There is morality that’s embodied in virtually every kind of law, not only criminal law, by the way, but in much of our civil law.
    — Zachary Evans, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The corpus of criminal and civil law was viewed as rightfully created and administered by states.
    — Mohammed Ayoob, Foreign Affairs, 3 Apr. 2016
  • In contrast, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are subject to Israeli civil law.
    — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The hawala would go on to influence the development of the agency concept in common and civil laws throughout Europe.
    — Harris Irfan, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2015
  • Just, at this point, the New York attorney general is focused on the civil law violations.
    — Bridget J. Crawford, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Under the Posse Comitatus Act, active-duty troops cannot be used for civil law enforcement.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Little by little, and without anyone’s objecting—or even seeming to notice—our civil law has moved away from the moral law whose fulfillment should be its sole purpose.
    — Michel Houellebecq, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Criminal law, unlike civil law, is less likely to hold defendants liable for the actions of a third party, even if that third party is the defendant’s child.
    — Thaddeus Hoffmeister, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024

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