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Definitions of civil law
Definition that contains civil law
  • answer the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
  • complaint (civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is based
  • offender a person who transgresses moral or civil law
  • precedent (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions
  • misconduct activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  • wrongdoing activity that transgresses moral or civil law
  • recuse challenge or except to a judge as being incompetent or interested, in canon and civil law
  • jurist a legal scholar versed in civil law or the law of nations
  • accession (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement
  • wrongdoer a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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