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ci·vil law
(si'vĭl lah) The branch of legislation dealing with the rights and duties of citizens rather than with criminal acts.
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Itaque majores aliud jus gentium, aliud
jus civile esse voluerunt.
The period of local (parochial) law known as the
jus civile. This strict and unbending law was concerned with Roman citizens only.
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