that portion of the law which defines, regulates, enforces, and administers relationships among individuals, associations, and corporations. As used in contradistinction to public law, the term means al that part of the law which is administered between citizen and citizen, or which is concerned with the definition, regulation, and enforcement of rights in cases where both the person in whom the right inheres and the person upon whom the obligation is incident are private individuals., Rooma õigusest pärinev õiguse osa, mis korraldab isikutevahelisi varalisi ja mittevaralisi suhteid