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CIVIL. This word has various significations. 1. It is used in contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society contradistinction to barbarous or savage, to indicate a state of society reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil reduced to order and regular government; thus we speak of civil life, civil society, civil government, and civil liberty society, civil government, and civil liberty 2. It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate 2. It is sometimes used in contradistinction to criminal, to indicate the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in the private rights and remedies of men, as members of the community, in contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we contrast to those which are public and relate to the government; thus we speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal speak of civil process and criminal process, civil jurisdiction and criminal jurisdiction. jurisdiction. 3. It is also used in contradistinction to military or ecclesiastical, 3. It is also used in contradistinction to military or ecclesiastical, to natural or foreign; thus we speak of a civil station, as opposed to a to natural or foreign; thus we speak of a civil station, as opposed to a military or ecclesiastical station, a civil death as opposed to a natural military or ecclesiastical station, a civil death as opposed to a natural death; a civil war as opposed to a foreign war. Story on the Const. Sec. 789;death; a civil war as opposed to a foreign war. Story on the Const. Sec. 789;1 Bl. Coin. 6, 125, 251; Montesq. Sp. of Laws, B 1, c. 3; Ruth. Inst. B. 2, 1 Bl. Coin. 6, 125, 251; Montesq. Sp. of Laws, B 1, c. 3; Ruth. Inst. B. 2, c. 2; Id. ch. 3Id. ch. 8, p. 359; Hein. Elem. Jurisp. Nat. B. 2, ch. 6. c. 2; Id. ch. 3Id. ch. 8, p. 359; Hein. Elem. Jurisp. Nat. B. 2, ch. 6.



Relating to the state or citizenry.





Matters concerning private rights and not offences against the state





Non-criminal. Civil law covers any matter which is not concerned with crime. For example, important branches of the civil law are concerned with marriage and divorce, property, wills and negligence.