Civil law and common law occasionally overlap or contradict each other.

But when you seek to act under it, you find the laws of the central Government and the republic contradict it.

A system of civil law is described, but no law may contradict the beliefs and provisions of Islam.

The law contradicts the Constitution's guarantee of equal rights for men and women.

The source of laws is the Shari'a, or at least the laws should not contradict it.

The Quran is the basis for all laws, and no law may contradict it.

He added that laws enacted through referendums often contradicted one another or were struck down in court.

There is a much bigger problem when one federal law contradicts another federal law.

This is an interesting case where international law contradicts national law.

The law contradicts itself by establishing ages of responsibility for selected activities.