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civil law
Last modified: Thu Feb 23 16:37:37 2006
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Any legal system in which the full body of law is determined by the
apparatus of state and is not derived from the decisions made by
the judiciary. Roman law was largely of this sort.
The English legal system, in contrast, developed primarily as a system of
`CommonLaw'.
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A branch of law dealing with the responsibilities of
persons to one another (see: TypesOfLaw).
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