Private Law Definition

Private Law Sentence Examples

• On the private law side 18 clauses, apply to rights of property and possession, 13 to succession and family law, 37 to contracts, including marriage when treated as an act of sale; 18 touch on civil procedure.

• The feudal state was one in which, as it has been said, private law had usurped the place of public law.

• Muirhead, Private Law of Rome, p. 73 et seq.

• The rules for the interpretation of treaties are not so different from those applicable to contracts in private law as to need here a separate discussion.

• His official position as secretary did not entirely prevent him from continuing his private law practice, and, with Jared Ingersoll, he was the counsel of Senator William Blount in his impeachment trial.