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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At civil law , in fact, he has no right in personam either.
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At age sixteen, he had received his doctorate in canon and civil law .
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Many of these provisions would be quite unacceptable to a civil law country.
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The civil law position is less problematical.
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The civil law , mainly through the torts of trespass and private nuisance, also had a role to play.
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The more formal civil law tradition requires international service to be initiated by specified officials.
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The result looks odd: she is guilty in criminal law but not liable in civil law .
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There is a basic distinction in the laws of this country between the criminal and the civil law .