Common law and Civil law

Common law noun - (civil law) a law established by following earlier judicial decisions.

Civil law and common law are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Civil law" instead a noun phrase "Common law".

Civil law noun - The legal code of ancient Rome; codified under Justinian; the basis for many modern systems of civil law.

Common law and civil law are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Common law" with "Civil law", this phrases are similar.