Usually means: Legal system based on codification.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word civil law:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil law: Merriam-Webster
  2. civil law: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. civil law: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. civil law: Collins English Dictionary
  5. civil law: Vocabulary.com
  6. civil law: Wordnik
  7. civil law: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. civil-law, civil law: Wiktionary
  9. civil law: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. civil law: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. civil-law, civil law: Dictionary.com
  12. Civil Law (Legal System), Civil law(legal system), Civil law (Roman), Civil law (area), Civil law (common law), Civil law (disambiguation), Civil law (legal system), Civil law (private law), Civil law (system), Civil law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. civil law: Rhymezone
  14. civil law: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  15. civil law: FreeDictionary.org
  16. civil law: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. civil law, civil law (2): TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. civil law: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. civil law: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. civil law: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Civil-law, civil law, civil law (2): Legal dictionary
  10. Civil-law, civil law: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Civil-law, civil law, civil law (2): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Civil-law, civil law, civil law (2): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Ethical Terms (No longer online)
  3. civil law: Genealogy Glossary

(Note: See civil_laws as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (civil law)

noun:  (law) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; it contrasts with criminal law, military law and ecclesiastical law.
noun:  (law) Legal system based on the Corpus Juris Civilis; it contrasts with common law.

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