NOUN
- legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)
How To Use civil action In A Sentence
- Individuals may also bring a private civil action against an employer for violations.
- These civil actions failed to stop the irrepressible hotelier from operating his illegal ferry system.
- He instructed lawyers to defend him in the civil action but withdrew them. Times, Sunday Times
- Chapter 1 is the outline of the equality of litigant in civil action.
- In both, a civil action had been brought against a teacher who had administered corporal punishment.
- You could pursue a civil action for damages against your ex but it could be costly. The Sun
- She brought a civil action against her former employer.
- It will lapse from the demand of the social development if we still cling to the present mediatory system in civil action.
- This bill proposes to create a civil action for the improvident transfer of property by a vulnerable adult.
- A second typical case would be a civil action suit which will probably move slowly and take two to three years.
