Civil legal relationship refers to the relationship of civil rights and obligations based on civil legal facts and adjusted by civil legal norms, which is the legal expression of property relationship and personal relationship between equal subjects adjusted by civil law. Civil legal relationship refers to the social relationship adjusted by civil legal norms, that is, the social relationship with civil rights and obligations as its basic content confirmed and protected by civil legal norms.

The civil legal relationship in a broad sense refers to the social relationship with legal significance formed by the adjustment of social relations by civil law; In a narrow sense, civil legal relations refer to social relations with civil rights and obligations as their basic contents.

Civil legal relationship has the following characteristics:

(a), the civil legal relationship is the relationship between equal subjects, which is generally established voluntarily;

Because the social relationship regulated by civil law is the property relationship and personal relationship between equal subjects, the legal relationship established according to civil law norms can only be the relationship between equal subjects. At the same time, the civil legal relationship not only conforms to the will of the state, but also embodies the will of the parties, and is generally established voluntarily by the parties according to their own wishes. As long as the actions of the parties according to their own will do not violate the law, the legal relationship established will be protected by law.

(2) Civil legal relationship is a social relationship formed by civil law adjusting the property relationship and personal relationship between equal subjects. But mainly property relations;

(3) Civil legal relationship is a social relationship based on civil legal facts;

(4) Civil legal relationship is a social relationship with civil rights and obligations as its basic content;

Civil law regulates social relations and endows civil subjects with rights and obligations, so civil legal relations are also civil rights and obligations.

Once a civil legal relationship is established, one party enjoys civil rights and the other party assumes corresponding civil obligations.

(five), the protection measures of civil legal relations are compensatory and property. The equality and property of the object of civil law adjustment are also manifested in the means to protect the civil legal relationship, that is, the main content of civil liability is property compensation, and punitive and non-property liability are not the main forms of civil liability.