Hitherto Cicero had only addressed the judges in the Forum in civil suits or criminal prosecutions.
Serjeant Floyd as bad as he can be no pulse & nothing will Stay a moment on his Stomach or bowels Passed two Islands on the S.
Little Miry River on the St Side, a heavy wind accompanied with rain & hail we Made 14 miles to day, the river Continue to rise, the County on each Side appear full of Water.
And there was really more to be said, both in reason and law, for this limited right of judicature than for the absolute cognisance of civil suits by the Lords.
An appeal lay, in civil suits, from the baron's court to that of the sheriff or lord of regality, and ultimately to the parliament, or to a certain number of persons to whom it delegated its authority.
Its decisions were final in civil suits on claims for six thousand pesos or less.
The oidores in these audiencias confined themselves to civil suits, but in audiencias where there were no alcaldes del crimen, the oidores were authorized to try both civil and criminal cases.
Then it might be asked whether the protection accorded to the person of the official extended to his property in civil suits, with the wide avenue thus opened to abuses of many kinds.
Thus familiars and servants were not entitled to the fuero, or inquisitorial jurisdiction, while salaried officials enjoyed it, active and passive, in criminal actions and only passive in civil suits.
Less serious but still abundantly obnoxious were the advantages which these tonsured laymen possessed in civil suits by claiming the privilege of ecclesiastical jurisdiction.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civil suits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
