How to Use civil law in a Sentence

civil law

noun
  • The parties involved often come from different legal traditions (e.g., common law, civil law, or hybrid systems).
    Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 19 June 2024
  • Does this mean religion now tops civil law, and the Civil Rights Act is null and void?
    Arkansas Online, 5 July 2023
  • The matter is a civil law complaint and has to be handled through those channels.
    Joan Rusek, cleveland, 10 July 2020
  • In civil law, the Murdaughs were known for suing railroads.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Because the two died in Louisiana, that state’s civil laws applied to the case.
    oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
  • There's no doubt that the deceased's family will be filing a civil law suit.
    Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • The ruling will have ripple effects beyond the civil law courts, where Jameson filed his case.
    Greg Moran, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 July 2018
  • In contrast, Israeli settlers in the West Bank are subject to Israeli civil law.
    Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Guerrero had the right to a supreme court appeal because CAS is under the jurisdiction of Swiss civil law.
    Graham Dunbar, chicagotribune.com, 31 May 2018
  • 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
  • But it was also aimed at eroding the autonomy of Muslims in matters of civil law.
    Kanchan Chandra, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • The United States is a country based on civil law with the principle of separation of church and state found in our Constitution.
    Said Ahmed-Zaid, idahostatesman, 9 Feb. 2018
  • The primacy of civil law over divine sources has been a thorny problem for Israel’s most religious Jews since the state’s earliest years.
    Dahlia Scheindlin, Time, 8 June 2021
  • In all cases where religious law is brought to bear in secular courts, U.S. civil law takes precedence by default.
    Said Ahmed-Zaid, idahostatesman, 9 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • Baha’is do not have recourse to civil law for personal status matters.
    Doug Bandow, National Review, 2 May 2021
  • When Israelis are suspected, that figure drops to 8.5%, and Israeli civil law applies.
    Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • Contrary to the claims of Democrats and their allies that election fraud is rare, fraud occurs in myriad ways, whether in violation of criminal or civil law.
    William Cinfici, National Review, 29 June 2021
  • The United States is the only country that offers citizens a constitutional right to a jury trial across the sweep of civil law.
    Edward D. McCarthy, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
  • The case has gone to the Strasbourg court, which is widely expected to rule next year that Greece breached human-rights standards by allowing Shariah law to supersede civil law.
    Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Lawyers who practice in the civil law courts are also apparently not included.
    Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • In this Moorish fantasy, the civil law of the United States is trumped by religious law gleaned from a strict interpretation of a thousands-year-old religious text from the Mideast desert.
    Jack Holmes, Esquire, 28 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Americans With Disabilities Act is a civil law that was implemented in 1990.
    Emily Flores, Teen Vogue, 14 Apr. 2018

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