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civ·il law
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the system of law concerned with private relations between members of a community rather than criminal, military, or religious affairs.Contrasted with criminal law.
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the system of law predominant on the European continent and of which a form is in force in Louisiana, historically influenced by the codes of ancient Rome. Compare with common law.
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CIVIL RIGHTS ACT ANNIVERSARY:THEODORE SHAW
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 9/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...nation's anti- discrimination laws and its career attorneys had...experience as a young lawyer in the Civil Rights Division was the best...of America in support of the civil rights of those who had long...the equal protection of the law. Today, I believe that the Justice Department's Civil ...
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Civil service reform in post-communist Europe: the bumpy road to depoliticisation.
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...embarked on a path of continuous civil service reform leading to further...Lithuania and Latvia had adopted civil service laws in the mid- 1990s but failed to...other countries that have adopted civil service laws, Estonia passed a...
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 "Cape Times (South Africa)")
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Civil Union Bill gives gays no marriage choice.(News)
Newspaper article from: Cape Times (South Africa); 9/27/2006; 700+ words
; ...consequences of a marriage apply to a "civil partnership" and that "all references to marriage in any other law, including the common law" include a civil partnership - but with one exception...does not include a reference to civil partnership. The practical...
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CIVIL SERVICE TESTING SLOWS ROMNEY SEEKS TO LIMIT SYSTEM
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/4/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...is trying to undermine civil service administratively...to do it by changing the law. "A lot of unions probably...could fulfill a lot of the civil service functions, until...Massachusetts adopted its civil service law in 1884, three years after...
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Civil Unions Now Routine in Vermont
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...to Dean for signing the law. Vermont officials are...Now our `radical' civil union thing is the compromise...similar to Vermont's civil unions law have been introduced...taking another look at civil unions, though, because...
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CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OVERSIGHT:CHARLES CANADY
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 2/25/1998; 700+ words
; ...important job of enforcing the civil rights laws for all Americans. The Division...mission. Historically, the Civil Rights Division fought hard...afforded equal protection of the law without regard to race or skin...current administration, the Civil Rights Division aggressively...
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 "Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)")
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Civil society in the Arab world: historical traces, contemporary vestiges.
Magazine article from: Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ); 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Although the associations of civil society are assumed to be...cannot operate outside the law as the law is a prerogative...harmony between state and civil society, in other words, is a prerequisite for civil harmony. Antonio Gramsci...
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Civil society in Nepal: in search of reality.(Report)
Magazine article from: Contributions to Nepalese Studies; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...contemporary usage tends to contrast civil society and the state. The seventeenth century theorists of civil society based their argument...social contract. For them, civil society (societas civilis) was a rule of law in which citizens gave up the...
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CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION:WADE HENDERSON
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony; 3/22/2007; 700+ words
; ...campaigns on behalf of every major civil rights law since 1957, including the work to pass the historic 1957 Civil Rights Act which created the Civil...including the Lawyers` Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the NAACP Legal Defense and...
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Civil rights doctrine reconsidered.(The Lost Promise of Civil Rights)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Historical Methods; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...book, The Lost Promise of Civil Rights, Risa L. Goluboff...University of Virginia School of Law, maintains that this scholarship...penetrate legal histories of civil fights." She attributes...promise of labor-based civil rights law from the nation's collective...
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Civil Rights Act of 1957
Book article from: Major Acts of Congress
...interpretation, as occurred in the Civil Rights Cases (1883). Among...significant lasting effects of these laws was the establishment of federal authority to enforce criminal civil rights provisions. Although...the 1950s, in the South state law was often used to prevent African...Americans from ...
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...Rights Commission with power to investigate civil rights violations but not to enforce civil rights laws and establishing a feeble remedy for voting rights violations. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 slightly strengthened the...
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Civil Liberties
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Civil Liberties Civil liberties are individual freedoms intended...limited to, equal protection under the law, freedom of speech and association, religious...crime. While many tend to use the terms civil liberties and civil rights interchangeably...
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Civil Society
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...1805 – 1859), civil society was the realm of intermediate...household-based activities. Civil society is juxtaposed to the...the framework of the rule of law, accepting a certain commitment...the like. In their writings, civil society becomes a description...
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Civil Law
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Civil Law has two distinct meanings. As used within the American legal system, “civil law” is noncriminal law such as...law, and the rules governing procedure in civil cases. But “civil law”...
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