Read full poem →a confutation of Varillas’s account of Wickliffe; and, engaging in the
study of the civil law, became Doctor in 1692, and was admitted advocate
at Doctors’ Commons.
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The body of law dealing with the private relations between members of a community; it contrasts with criminal law, military law and ecclesiastical law.
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Poetry examples for “civil law”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →the winter of 1742, he was admitted a bachelor
of civil law ; and a short recreation of his studies
appears in a ' Fragment of an Address to Igno-