CIVILITER

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CIVILITER. Civilly; opposed to criminaliter or criminally.
       2. When a person does an unlawful act injurious to another, whether 
  with or without an intention to commit a tort, he is responsible civiliter. 
  In order to make him liable criminaliter, he must have intended to do the 
  wrong; for it is a maxim, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea. 2 East, 
  104.