secular law
Nonreligious legal system
Secular law is law derived from civil authority rather than religious doctrine.
It governs conduct through legislation, courts, and constitutions independent of any faith tradition.
The term often appears in contrast to religious or canon law: In Turkey, secular law replaced Islamic law in the 1920s.
The dispute raised questions about where secular law ends and religious freedom begins.
- civil codeCodified private law system
- legal codeSystematic collection of laws
- written constitutionCodified supreme law document
- constitutionInherent physical or structural makeup
- church and stateReligious and governmental powers
judge · civil court · court system · judiciary · temporal · state authority · separation of powers · natural rights · Enlightenment ideals · legislature · civil marriage · litigation · Napoleonic Code · human rights · enforcement · justice · pluralism · tribunal
- legal systemsjudiciary, criminal code, court system, penal code, laws
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- Ottoman ReformsTanzimat reforms, secularization, military reform, military reforms, education reform
- secularizationsecularization, dechristianization, disaffiliation, church closures, church-state separation
- South Asian Lawhigh courts, high court, fundamental rights, advocate, advocates
- Halakhahalakhah, halacha, mitzvot, commandments, din
secular lawreligious law
Faith-based governance system
canon law · divine law · sharia · sacred law · Mosaic law