civil law

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.

We are confident that a review of all documents and statements will show that Cisterra and its employees acted appropriately and complied with all criminal and civil laws.

The groups ask for James to adopt a civil law standard for determining Cuomo’s potential wrongdoing, as opposed to the criminal standard of “beyond a reasonable doubt.”

Dycus said the Insurrection Act can be used only if civil law enforcement can’t handle the problem.

Under the Posse Comitatus Act, active-duty troops cannot be used for civil law enforcement.

Whereas settlers are subjected to Israeli civil law, Palestinians are subjected to martial law.

Crimes “perpetrated with a minor by a cleric” fall under church jurisdiction, not civil law enforcement.

The kind of verbal threats the civil law considers wrongful are those that unconditionally threaten immediate bodily harm.

How were the weak to be protected, and the strong to be restrained, at points beyond the ordinary pale of the civil law?

Civil law, which is God's ordinance, prohibits tampering with any testament of man.

It restored the old French civil law but continued the milder English criminal law already in operation.

After his preliminary studies he went to Oxford, where he became a licentiate of civil law, and took Holy Orders.

We say according to the course of the civil law, and we say according to the course of the common law.