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