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civil wrong.1.WRONG. 2.TORT. 3.DELICT. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil war.See WAR. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil term.See TERM(5). [Blacks Law 8th]

civil society.See SOCIETY.[Blacks Law 8th]

Civil Service Commission.A former independent federal agency that supervised the government’s personnel system. • The agency was created in 1883 and abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978. Its functions were transferred to the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Office of Personnel Management. See MERIT SYS-TEMS PROTECTION BOARD; OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT . [Cases: Officers…

civil union.Family law. A marriage-like relationship, often between members of the same sex, recognized by civil authorities within a jurisdiction. • Vermont was the first state to recognize civil unions. In December 1999, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that denying gay couples the benefits of marriage amounted to unconstitutional discrimination. Baker v. State, 744 A.2d…

civil-rights act.One of several federal statutes enacted after the Civil War (1861–1865) and, much later, during and after the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, for the purpose of implementing and giving further force to the basic rights guaranteed by the Constitution, and esp. prohibiting discrimination in employment and education on the basis of…

  civil right.(usu. pl.) 1. The individual rights of personal liberty guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and by the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 19th Amendments, as well as by legislation such as the Voting Rights Act. • Civil rights include esp. the right to vote, the right of due process, and the right of…

civil remedy.See REMEDY(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

civil process.See PROCESS. [Blacks Law 8th]