civil action

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civil action - legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution)

action at law, legal action, action - a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

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