na-adjective
civil; private-law
Used in legal or formal contexts to describe matters related to civil law, as opposed to criminal or administrative law. Often appears in phrases like 民事的な問題 (civil matter) or 民事的責任 (civil liability).
この問題は民事的な解決を目指すべきだ。
We should aim for a civil resolution to this problem.
民事的な責任を追及する。
Pursue civil liability.
刑事的 means 'criminal' (as in criminal law), the opposite of 民事的 in legal contexts.
Formed from 民事 (civil affairs) + 的 (-like, -ic), a common pattern for creating adjectival nouns from nouns.