Is the dispute over the right to life criminal or civil?

Legal analysis: whether the dispute over the right to life belongs to the adjustment scope of criminal law or civil law. We should distinguish between specific situations. First, the dispute over the right to life is only a civil tort, which does not constitute a criminal offence. It belongs to the category of civil legal disputes and is regulated by the General Principles of the Civil Law and the Tort Liability Law. Second, if an act constitutes a crime, it is regulated by both criminal law and civil law, and there are two different legal relationships. In the criminal aspect, it is the application of the state penalty power; On the civil side, it may involve issues of criminal incidental civil action, which shall be adjusted by relevant civil laws.

Legal basis: Article 13 of the Criminal Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates that all acts that endanger the sovereignty, territorial integrity and security of the country, split the country, subvert the people's democratic dictatorship and the socialist system, disrupt the social and economic order, infringe on state-owned property or property collectively owned by working people, infringe on citizens' private property, infringe on citizens' personal rights, democratic rights and other rights, and other acts that endanger society shall be punished according to law.

Tort liability law

Article 2 Whoever infringes upon the civil rights and interests within the scope of protection shall bear the tort liability in accordance with this Law. The civil rights and interests mentioned in this Law include personal rights and property rights such as the right to life, health, name, reputation, honor, portrait, privacy, marital autonomy, guardianship, ownership, usufructuary right, security right, copyright, patent right, trademark exclusive right, discovery right, stock right and inheritance right.

Article 3 The right of claim of the infringed party, the infringed party has the right to request the infringer to bear the tort liability.

Article 4 The aggregation of legal liability and the principle of priority of civil liability

If the infringer should bear administrative responsibility or criminal responsibility for the same act, it does not affect the tort liability according to law. If the property of the infringer is insufficient to pay for the same act, the infringer shall bear the tort liability first.