Private law definition

Private law means the law that applies between individuals, in contrast to the law that applies between individuals and the State. In general, it means the law of property, torts, and contract, broadly defined.
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Private law means a law which affects an individual, family, or small group;
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Examples of Private law in a sentence

  • The GTC as well as the legal relationship between the Customer and CARBAGAS are subject exclusively to Swiss law excluding Swiss International Private law and any international treaties (in particular the Vienna Convention dated 11 April 1980, SR 0.221.211.1.).

  • Private law ends where transactions are not essentially bilateral, that is, where parties to a transaction impose substantial effects on third parties and cannot be relied upon to optimize aggregate interests.

  • Private law foundations with a continued financial support by the Portuguese State, under the Culture Budget Programme cannot be applicants under the above mentioned Decree-law.

  • Wilhelmsson (ed.), Private law and the Cultures of Europe, Alphen aan den Rijn: Kluwer law international 2007, p.

  • Private law enforcement thus fulfills a central function in the field of State aid law.14 Moreover, the principles of effet utile and the duty of sincere cooperation under Article 4 (3) TEU also state in the field of State aid that decisions of national courts must never be in conflict with a Commission decision, even if the latter is only provisional.

  • Private law is the law of everydays between individuals that is arisen from deep roots of social operation.

  • Private law enforcement before national Member State courts with regard of violations of State aid rules by British aid grantors, will only be possible where the aid has been granted under private law.

  • C.W. Maris van Sandelingenambacht, ‘Legal Postism and the End of European Private Law’, European Review of Private law 2002, no.

Related to Private law

  • Cookie Law means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic

  • private land means any land that has been or may hereafter be alienated from the Crown for any estate of freehold, or is or may hereafter be the subject of any conditional purchase agreement, or of any lease or concession with or without a right of acquiring the fee simple thereof (not being a pastoral lease within the meaning of the Land Administration Act 1997 or a lease or concession otherwise granted by or on behalf of the Crown for grazing purposes only or for timber purposes or a lease of Crown land for the use and benefit of the Aboriginal inhabitants) but —

  • Private Key means the key of a key pair used to create a digital signature;

  • Private ▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.01(f).

  • Public or private safety agency means a unit of state or local government, a special purpose district, or a private firm, which provides or has the authority to provide firefighting, police, ambulance, emergency medical services or hazardous materials response.