private law

private law
private law n: a branch of law concerned with private persons, property, and relationships compare public law

Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. . 1996.

private law
the law applying between persons or between a person and a thing insofar as not involving the state.

Collins dictionary of law. . 2001.


private law
That portion of the law that defines, regulates, enforces, and administers relationships among individuals, associations, and corporations. As used in distinction to public law, the term means that part of the law that is administered between citizen and citizen, or that is concerned with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom the obligation rests are private individuals.

Dictionary from West's Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005.


private law
I
That portion of the law that defines, regulates, enforces, and administers relationships among individuals, associations, and corporations. As used in distinction to public law, the term means that part of the law that is administered between citizen and citizen, or that is concerned with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom the obligation rests are private individuals.
 II That law, such as a contract between two persons or a real estate transaction, which applies only to the persons who subject themselves to it.

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