Civil law

Synonyms for "civil law" (14 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (3)

Adjective(2 words)
civil provisioncivil statutes
Noun(1 words)
code law

Strong matches (4)

Noun(2 words)
codified lawitalian civile
common lawequity

Related words (7)

Noun(5 words)
jus civilejustinian codenoncriminal lawprivate lawroman law
martial law
Adjective(1 words)
secular law

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

5 entries
area of lawjurisprudencelawlegal codelegal tradition

More specific

7 entries
French civil codeGerman civil codeNapoleonic codecontract lawfamily lawproperty lawtort law

Collocations

6 entries
civil codecivil law casecivil law judgecivil law studentcivil law systemcivil law tradition

Inflections

1 entries
civil laws

Derivations

2 entries
civil law systemcivil law tradition

Antonyms

1 entries
international law

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

The Supreme Court of Canada is a bijural court that deals with both Quebec civil law and the common law used in the rest of the country.

Source: wiktionary