# civil law

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community;
2. A legal system primarily based on a legal code, which commonly derives from the Corpus Juris Civilis.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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