Civil Litigation: What is a civil suit and what are the processes in a civil lawsuit?
The legal structure of the United States consists of the criminal justice system and civil justice system. Among the two the criminal justice system deals with the criminal cases that may cause damage to life and property and society as a whole whereas in the civil cases the involved parties are only found to be affected.
So, What is a Civil suit? Civil suits involve civil cases that deal with the dispute of any two-person or any two institutions in the civil court of law. So, the civil lawsuit does not involve criminal charges or penalties. In a civil suit, non-criminal disputes are held in which the plaintiff may seek compensation or any other damage recovery from the defendant.
The term which is mostly used in a civil suit is mediation versus arbitration. In mediation, the civil sui...