A lawsuit that is not criminal in nature and usually a dispute regarding private property rights such as breach of contract, divorce, negligence and personal injury, probate proceedings, etc. Law Dictionary - Alternative Legal Definition In the civil law. A personal action which is instituted to compel payment, or the doing some other thing which is purely civil. At common law. … [Read more...] about CIVIL ACTION
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CISA
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CIVIL BILL COURT
A tribunal in Ireland with a jurisdiction analogous to that of the county courts in England. The judge of it is also chairman of quarter sessions, (where the Jurisdiction is more extensive than in England,) and performs the duty of revising barrister. Wharton. … [Read more...] about CIVIL BILL COURT
CISTA
A box or cheat for the deposit of charters, deeds, and things of value. … [Read more...] about CISTA
CIVIL CASE
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