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civil court
noun [C] LAWDefinition
› a court of law that deals with disagreements between individual people or private companies, rather than with criminal activity: He was charged with insider trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a $90 million suit in civil court.
(Definition of civil court noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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