Landlord Tenant Board LSO Licensing Practice Exam

Private law covers legal relationships between private individuals and organizations, focusing on the rights and duties that arise in those relationships. Civil law is the branch that handles these disputes and obligations—things like contracts, torts, property, and family matters—through civil courts and remedies such as damages or injunctions. The other areas are public law, because they involve the state and its powers: criminal law deals with offenses against society, constitutional law sets the framework for government and fundamental rights, and administrative law governs actions of government agencies. So civil law is the private-law area.