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civil infraction.See INFRACTION. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil imprisonment.Hist. See IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil fruit.See FRUIT.[Blacks Law 8th]

civil impediment.See IMPEDIMENT.[Blacks Law 8th]

civilian,n.1. A person not serving in the military. 2. A lawyer practicing in a civil-law jurisdiction. — Also termed civilista. 3. A scholar in civil or Roman law. — civilian,adj. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil fraud.See FRAUD. [Blacks Law 8th]

  civil forfeiture.See FORFEITURE. [Blacks Law 8th]

civil embargo.See EMBARGO(2). [Blacks Law 8th]

civil disorder.A public disturbance involving three or more people who commit violent acts that cause immediate danger or injury to people or property. See RIOT. [Cases: Riot  1. C.J.S. Riot; Insurrection §§ 2–10.] [Blacks Law 8th]

civil disobedience.A deliberate but nonviolent act of lawbreaking to call attention to a particular law or set of laws believed by the actor to be of questionable legitimacy or morality.“Social protest and even civil disobedience serve the law’s need for growth. Ideally, reform would come according to reason and justice without self-help and disturbing, almost violent, forms…