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lawsuit
(redirected from Civil court)

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lawsuit: see procedure procedure, in law, the rules that govern the obtaining of legal redress. This article deals only with civil procedure in Anglo-American law (for criminal procedure, see criminal law ).
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; tort tort, in law, the violation of some duty clearly set by law, not by a specific agreement between two parties, as in breach of contract . When such a duty is breached, the injured party has the right to institute suit for compensatory damages .
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lawsuit
a proceeding in a court of law brought by one party against another, esp a civil action


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And 10 years after a civil court found him liable for those two murders and ordered him to pay $33.
She also serves as an arbitrator for the Civil Court of the City of New York.
What all of this means is that while under canon law, a parish's assets and liabilities generally belong to the parish and not to the diocese, a civil court may not see things that way when a diocese organized as a corporation sole finds itself in court, despite the bishop's claim that, according to canon law, he does not "own" the parishes.
 
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