Briefly describe the concept and characteristics of civil legal relationship.

[Analysis] Civil legal relationship refers to the social relationship with civil rights and obligations established according to civil legal norms, which is formed through the adjustment of civil legal norms.

Characteristics of civil legal relationship:

(1) The relationship between equal subjects 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) Legal relationship with civil rights and obligations as its content. Civil law regulates social relations by endowing civil subjects with rights and setting their obligations. Therefore, civil legal relationship is also a civil right and obligation. Once a civil legal relationship is established, one party enjoys civil rights and the other party assumes corresponding civil obligations.

(3) The safeguard measures 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.