Civil law regulates private rights and obligations between persons and organizations
Evidence
All other law is classified as civil law. This is different from the distinction between common-law and civil-law systems discussed earlier. Civil law, in contrast to criminal law, is concerned with private rights and obligations and legal remedies when those rights are violated or those obligations are unmet. It usually involves legal relationships between private persons, organizations, or both. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 171
All other law is classified as civil law. This is different from the distinction between common-law and civil-law systems discussed earlier. Civil law, in contrast to criminal law, is concerned with private rights and obligations and legal remedies when those rights are violated or those obligations are unmet. It usually involves legal relationships between private persons, organizations, or both. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 172
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the civil law category and warns against confusing it with the earlier civil-law legal systems distinction.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 171; G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 172
- XREF: connects to: Civil law obligations arise from contracts, legislation, regulation, and common law — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 172; Private law governs relations among private citizens and organizations. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 152; Civil-law rights arise from contracts, legislation, regulation, or common-law rulings — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 173 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Private law governs relations among private citizens and organizations.
#corroborates(0.96) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 152 - Civil-law rights arise from contracts, legislation, regulation, or common-law rulings
#expands(0.82) — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 173 - No branch of law remains purely private in modern legal systems
#qualifies(0.78) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 777