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Noun
1. civil law; continental lawSee also 市民法
Wikipedia definition
2. Civil law (legal system)]] Civil law (or civilian law) is a legal system originating in Western Europe, intellectualized within the framework of late Roman law, and whose most prevalent feature is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.
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