private law
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Private law is the branch of law that deals with relationships and disputes between individuals, organizations, and businesses—rather than conflicts involving the government. It matters because it establishes the rules for everyday transactions, contracts, and conflicts that affect people's property, families, and business dealings.
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- Subclass of
- jurisprudence
- Part of
- law
- Has part
- economic law
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- opposite of
- public law
- partially coincident with
- social law
- topic's main category
- Category:Private law
- Commons category
- Private law
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
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Encyclopedic overview
Private law is the part of a legal system that governs interactions between individual persons. It is distinguished from public law, which deals with relationships between both natural and artificial persons (i.e., organizations) and the state, including regulatory statutes, penal law and other law that affects the public order. In general terms, private law involves interactions between private individuals, whereas public law involves interrelations between the state and the general population. In legal systems of the civil law tradition, it is that part of the jus commune that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law tradition), and the law of obligations (as it is called in the civil law tradition).
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