Civil law may refer to:
- Civil law (common law), a branch of common law dealing with relations between individuals or organizations (as opposed to criminal law)
- Civil law (legal system) (or "Continental law"), any of the various systems or codes of law which are derived from Roman law historically
- Civil law (area), a branch of Continental law which is the general part of private law
- The law that apply to the citizens of a city or state as opposed to international law
- The law as it relates to ordinary citizens as opposed to military or ecclesiastical law
Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or law:
“Both of us felt more anxiety about the South—about the colored people especially—than about anything else sinister in the result. My hope of a sound currency will somehow be realized; civil service reform will be delayed; but the great injury is in the South. There the Amendments will be nullified, disorder will continue, prosperity to both whites and colored people will be pushed off for years.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)