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Civil litigation - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Apologetics, Apology, Argument, Bicker, Case, Casuistry, Cause, Combat, Conflict, Contention, Contest, Controversy, Debate, Defense, Disputation, Dispute, Enmity |
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Civil litigation has at least three meanings. It may connote an entire legal system, or either of two different bodies of law within a legal system:
- a legal system
- the set of rules governing relations between persons (either humans or legal personalities such as corporations); here the contrast is public law, especially criminal law;
- Secular law, as opposed to canon law.
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