Civil law deals with conflicts and disputes between individuals, organizations, businesses etc. Civil courts deals with personal life affairs like property, ownership, marriage, insurance claims, custody of children, copyrights etc. However specialized courts are set up to deal with specialized cases like Family Courts, Motor Vehicles Claims Tribunal etc.
In civil cases the petitioner is called Plaintiff and the opponent is called the Defendant.
Features of Civil Law:
- Civil law deals with disputes between the private individuals and organization.
- Civil law protects the rights of the parties and solve the disputes in a timely and efficient manner, based on the principle of justice, fairness and the rule of law.
- Cases are usually the verdicts by a judge or panel of judges.
- Burden of proof is lower in civil cases as compared to criminal cases. In Civil law cases the remedies typically include monetary compensation or to resolve the injury rather than fines or imprisonment.
Money suits, injunction suits, partition suits, boundary fixation suits, suit for damages, suits for breach of contract etc are typical civil cases.