Criminal law is a subset of private law

What governs the relationship between individuals within society?
Law:� a body of enforceable rules governing relationships among individuals and between individuals and their society..
What is civil law in Canada?
Civil law: a body of law that outlines rules on settling disputes between individuals.
Constitutional law: body of law derived from the common law or a written constitution that defines the powers of the executive, legislature and judiciary and guides the duties and rights of citizens..
Statutory law - created by a legislative body, such as the U.S.
Congress or the State of Maryland General Assembly.

Tort law is a subset of private law that seeks to compensate the injured party for the loss caused by the actions of another.

Is 'civil law' the same as 'private law'?

The concept ‘civil law’ is often used interchangeably with that of ‘private law’. (Not helpfully, but relevantly, it is also often contrasted with that of ‘criminal law’.) There are some good reasons for not treating the two terms as synonymous.
First, they have not always been treated that way.

Is criminal law a subdomain of Public Law?

That is why some jurisdictions do not qualify criminal law as a subdomain of public law, emphasizing that the primary rules concern the horizontal relationships between legal subjects.
One could say that criminal law shows the mutual dependencies between the horizontal and the vertical relationships of a legal system.

What is private law?

It follows that private law is that part of law where the government ‘as such’ does not play a role.
We must remind ourselves, however, that private law is an artificial construction, just like public law and criminal law.
It has been instituted by the legislature and will be enforced and fine-tuned by the courts.

Why is criminal law a part of Public Law?

It reconstructs the historical development of criminal law as a part of public law, in order to shed light on the public nature of criminal law, as well as to reflect critically on some contemporary efforts to give greater specificity to the idea of crimes as ‘public wrongs’.

Legal act of dividing an estate

A partition is a term used in the law of real property to describe an act, by a court order or otherwise, to divide up a concurrent estate into separate portions representing the proportionate interests of the owners of property.
It is sometimes described as a forced sale.
Under the common law, any owner of property who owns an undivided concurrent interest in land can seek such a division.
In some cases, the parties agree to a specific division of the land; if they are unable to do so, the court will determine an appropriate division.
A sole owner, or several owners, of a piece of land may partition their land by entering a deed poll.

Criminal law is a subset of private law

What governs the relationship between individuals within society?

What is civil law in Canada?

Is 'civil law' the same as 'private law'?

Is criminal law a subdomain of Public Law?

What is private law?

Why is criminal law a part of Public Law?