Civil law

Quality:

Civil law - legal system originating in continental Europe. Article “Civil law” in Simple English Wikipedia has 42.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 19 references and 6 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

Since the creation of article “Civil law”, its content was written by 30 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (7176^th place) and edited by 1375 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 141 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 6780 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #252 in April 2024
• Global: #7404 in May 2015

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3494 in March 2015
• Global: #16476 in November 2014

There are 43 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 大陆法系		94.5375
2	Catalan (ca) Dret continental		64.07
3	English (en) Civil law (legal system)		51.5054
4	Portuguese (pt) Família romano-germânica de direitos		47.4641
5	Estonian (et) Kontinentaalne õigussüsteem		42.9199
6	Simple English (simple) Civil law		42.3012
7	Italian (it) Civil law		36.4729
8	Malay (ms) Undang-undang sivil (sistem perundangan)		36.465
9	Russian (ru) Романо-германская правовая семья		31.8546
10	Armenian (hy) Մայրցամաքային իրավունք		31.2504

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil law (legal system)		7 356 238
2	Russian (ru) Романо-германская правовая семья		1 359 594
3	Chinese (zh) 大陆法系		1 017 705
4	Spanish (es) Derecho continental		649 290
5	Portuguese (pt) Família romano-germânica de direitos		529 170
6	French (fr) Droit romano-civiliste		509 915
7	Japanese (ja) 大陸法		478 381
8	Thai (th) ซีวิลลอว์ (ระบบกฎหมาย)		468 703
9	Italian (it) Civil law		442 727
10	Polish (pl) System prawa kontynentalnego		231 695

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Civil law (legal system)		12 872
2	Chinese (zh) 大陆法系		3 920
3	Russian (ru) Романо-германская правовая семья		2 161
4	French (fr) Droit romano-civiliste		1 071
5	Japanese (ja) 大陸法		904
6	Thai (th) ซีวิลลอว์ (ระบบกฎหมาย)		599
7	Italian (it) Civil law		546
8	Spanish (es) Derecho continental		539
9	Persian (fa) قانون مدنی (نظام قانونی)		360
10	Portuguese (pt) Família romano-germânica de direitos		300

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Civil law (legal system)		528
2	Chinese (zh) 大陆法系		79
3	French (fr) Droit romano-civiliste		78
4	Italian (it) Civil law		76
5	Hebrew (he) המשפט הקונטיננטלי		65
6	Russian (ru) Романо-германская правовая семья		49
7	Spanish (es) Derecho continental		45
8	Portuguese (pt) Família romano-germânica de direitos		45
9	Japanese (ja) 大陸法		38
10	Simple English (simple) Civil law		30

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Azerbaijani (az) Roman-German hüququ		2
2	Catalan (ca) Dret continental		2
3	Arabic (ar) قانون مدني (نظام قانوني)		1
4	Dutch (nl) Continentaal recht		1
5	Bulgarian (bg) Континентална правна система		0
6	Czech (cs) Kontinentální evropské právo		0
7	Danish (da) Civilret (retssystem)		0
8	English (en) Civil law (legal system)		0
9	Esperanto (eo) Romiĝermana juro		0
10	Spanish (es) Derecho continental		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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