💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Civil court"
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| county courtnoun | (US) A court which handles both civil and criminal cases. |
| court casenoun | (law) a legal case to be resolved in a court |
| court of lawnoun | A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes. |
| law courtnoun | Alternative form of court of law. [A court presided over by a judge which is empowered to decide all aspects of legal disputes.] |
| civil lawnoun | (law) The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; |
| civil procedurenoun | (law) A body of rules that regulate the administration of civil trials and appeals. |
| civil wrongnoun | (law) A wrongful act by one person against another for which the other person may recover damages in a lawsuit; this includes tort, breach of contract, breach of trust, and breach of fiduciary duty. |
| court of justicenoun | (law) A court of law. |
| civil suitnoun | (law) A lawsuit; an action filed in a court of law to recover for injury wrongfully caused by another. |
| lawsuitnoun | (law) In civil law, a case where two or more people disagree and one or more of the parties take the case to a court for resolution. |
| family courtnoun | (law) A court convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, such as the custody of children. |
| civil trialnoun | A trial in which a plaintiff seeks damages or other remedy from a defendant; a lawsuit |
| police courtnoun | (historical in UK, law) A court of justice for trying minor criminal cases brought before it by the police, often in summary proceedings. |
| civil codenoun | (law) A systematic collection of laws addressing dealings between private parties, such as business contracts and negligence lawsuits. |
| civil actionnoun | (law) In the United States, a lawsuit between private parties, including an action by a private person against a government entity, which will be treated as a private party by the court. |
| court of first instancenoun | (law) a court of law where legal proceedings are first heard. |
| constitutional courtnoun | a high court whose jurisdiction is focused on constitutional law or constitutional issues, such as the review of the constitutionality of laws, draft laws, political and bureaucratic decisions, acts of political parties, etc. |
| common lawnoun | (law) Legal system mainly in England and its former colonies with a heavy emphasis on judge-made law, doctrines deduced by casuistry rather than from general principles, and law distributed among judicial decisions rather than codified statutes (as opposed to civil law). |
| cause of actionnoun | (law) A condition under which one party would be entitled to sue another. |
| trial courtnoun | (law) a court of first instance. |
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