civil suit

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   a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant

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Questions about civil suit

What does civil suit mean?

civil suit means "a lawsuit alleging violations of civil law by the defendant".

Is civil suit a common word?

civil suit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.