Term: civil law: the body of laws established by a state or nation for its own regulation
Candidate hypernym: law: the collection of rules imposed by authority → 1
Candidate hypernym: leonberg: a large dog (usually with a golden coat) produced by crossing a St Bernard and a Newfoundland → 0
Candidate hypernym: walnut: hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling → 0
Candidate hypernym: bear grass: stemless plant with tufts of grasslike leaves and erect panicle of minute creamy white flowers; southwestern United States and Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: plautus: a genus of Alcidae → 0
Candidate hypernym: sick pay: wages paid to an employee who is on sick leave → 0
Candidate hypernym: muskogee: a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy → 0
Candidate hypernym: winter purslane: succulent herb sometimes grown as a salad or pot herb; grows on dunes and waste ground of Pacific coast of North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: acid: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide → 0
Candidate hypernym: pearl oyster: tropical marine bivalve found chiefly off eastern Asia and Pacific coast of North America and Central America; a major source of pearls → 0
Candidate hypernym: fountain: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water → 0