NOUN
- legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)
How To Use civil action In A Sentence
- The department would also help people who had suffered the consequences of fire, resulting from uncleared invasive alien vegetation, to take civil action against those responsible.
- He plans to bring a civil action against them, claiming unfair arrest and loss of earnings.
- The various civil actions that must follow will enmesh BA up to their eyeballs in pooh for ages to come. perhaps they might like to try competing with the likes of Ryanair and Easyjet for a change instead of using their preferential position at Heathrow to cheat their customers. The World's Least Favourite Airline
- Indeed, the civil action from the US government may be the precursor to criminal actions. Times, Sunday Times
- He instructed lawyers to defend him in the civil action but withdrew them. Times, Sunday Times
- Does that cover a person adjudged liable to pay a pecuniary penalty in a civil action?
- She brought a civil action against her former employer.
- She brought a civil action against her former employer.
- After his accident in the spring of 1988, Kenneth sued for damages in a civil action.
- BELLEVILLE - A Belleville judge has granted a publication ban and issued several directives to Col. Russ Williams and his wife, Mary-Elizabeth Harriman, regarding a a civil action brought against them by a local woman. Toronto Sun
