How to Use civil law in a Sentence

civil law

noun

• 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
• 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
• As a small and independent civil law enforcement agency, the FTC encourages our partners to help spread our message to consumers.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 8 May 2018
• Jason Cantrell was a lawyer who specialized in criminal defense, civil law, and family law.
  — Doc Louallen, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
• First, it should be duly understood that the country operates under a civil law system influenced by Sharia principles.
  — Radu Magdin, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024