The civil law courts didn't behave like that in Tyr!

Court proceedings of the civil law courts were also held in Doctors' Commons.

As civil law court decisions move in the direction of common law reasoning, it is possible that this balance may shift.

Both Sharia and civil law courts operate, however.

The two major models for courts are the civil law courts and the common law courts.

Civil law courts generally decide cases using statutory law on a case-by-case basis, without reference to other (or even superior) judicial decisions.

The Basilica housed the civil law courts and tabernae (shops), and provided space for government offices and banking.

The Civil Law Courts deal with all commercial, civil, and criminal cases, as well disputes related to the personal status of non-Muslims.

Copyrights are generally enforced by the holder in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes in some jurisdictions.

By the middle of the 12th century, England had many different ecclesiastical and civil law courts, with overlapping jurisdictions resulting from the interaction of diverse legal traditions.

Safety and Security - Business Disputes Business disputes in China are rarely handled through the civil law courts.

Civil law courts are based upon the judicial system in France, while the common law courts are based on the judicial system in England.

In former years, Doctors of Law were a distinct form of Attorney-at-Law who were empowered to act as advocates in civil law courts.

These courts do not use the common law of England, but are civil law courts largely based upon the Corpus Juris Civilis of Justinian.

She would be taken by barge to stand before the high court of admiralty, a civil law court closely identified with the king's prerogative and the rim of England's jurisprudence domain.

The judge who tried the Guildford Four and the Maguire family, Mr. Justice Donaldson, is now Lord Donaldson, Master of the Rolls - that is, head of the English civil law courts.

The differences between common and civil law (legal system) jurisdictions are gradually becoming smaller, as common law jurisdictions enact statutes that cover areas formerly left to the common law, and civil law courts give increasing weight to precedent.

In next week's episode, "Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation," Mr. Mortimer gives his rumpled hero a change of venue, moving him out of Old Bailey to a Civil Law Court, where the princely lawyer fees can add up to 500 pounds a day.

Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract (since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist, acted as if it did, but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it).

Jacobs explains, however, that this distinction is exaggerated on closer examination: Civil law courts, iura novit curia notwithstanding, may not exceed the limits of the case as defined by the claims of the parties and may not generally raise a new point involving new issues of fact.

While neither English common law courts nor continental civil law courts generally had the power to declare legislation unconstitutional (only the power to change law), the United States Supreme Court has long been understood to have the power to declare federal or state legislation unconstitutional.

Civil law courts provide a forum for deciding disputes involving tort (such as accidents, negligence, and libel), contract disputes, the probate of wills, trusts, property disputes, administrative law, commercial law, and any other private matters that involve private parties and other groups including government institutions.

The cases are tried before a judge, without a jury, in civil court.

This became the largest civil court case in British legal history.

But we are pressing for a public trial before a civil court.

The only further avenue of appeal would be in civil court.

She added, though, that it was up to a civil court to judge those matters.

Can the civil courts system afford to give everyone their day in court?

The case against him, he argued, should have been heard in a civil court, not criminal.

He will be properly and fairly tried by a civil court.

Their appeal hearing was held in a civil court on 12 December.

That settled it; the case would go to trial in the civil court.

Complaints would be made to the state attorney general's office, which could then follow up in civil court.

His father was a judge of the civil court system in Bombay.

You're to appear in civil court at ten o'clock Friday morning.

His civil court appearance came ten days after another brush with the law.

Texas is also more aggressive about recovering money in civil court.

In a series of decisions, the civil courts ruled against her.

It defined how the civil court system was to be structured.

I'll be taking that out of Junior's hide in civil court.

He is now the subject of a civil court case in the US.

A more formal approach is to have civil courts order people to enter community treatment.

In civil court, justice and money were interchangeable because they meant the same thing.

He lost his seat when a civil court case resulted in bankruptcy.

"You're going to have to go to civil court in the morning, get a restraining order," I said.

Moody, a homosexual, never married and spent the final years of his life involved in civil court cases.

Then, if he doesn't like the result, he should go to civil court.