Civil Law Relationships

Civil law relationships are the concrete social relationships containing rights and duties which are affirmed by the civil law. They are the expression in law of certain property and personal relationships. For example, ownership relationships between subjects, obligation relationships, relationships arising out of the rights of authorship, etc., are all civil law relationships. Civil law relations express the equal, non gratuitous relations between the parties. Moreover they are, in this respect, differentiated from administrative, fiscal, criminal, as well as marriage or family law relations. “Legal Facts” refers to objective phenomena which can create, alter, or dissolve civil law relations, among the parties. Legal facts may be divided into the two major categories of circumstances and acts. The content of civil law relations consists of the rights and duties of the persons who are parties to the relations. The object of a civil law relationship refers to the matter to which the rights and duties are directed.