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  2. Substantive law - Wikipedia

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    Substantive laws, which govern outcomes, are contrasted with procedural laws, which govern procedure. Henry Sumner Maine said of early law, "So great is the ascendency of the Law of Actions in the infancy of Courts of Justice, that substantive law has at first the look of being gradually secreted in the interstices of procedure; and the early ...

  3. Procedural law - Wikipedia

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    Substantive law, which refers to the actual claim and defense whose validity is tested through the procedures of procedural law, is different from procedural law. In the context of procedural law, procedural rights may also refer not exhaustively to rights to information, access to justice, and right to counsel, rights to public participation ...

  4. Substantive due process - Wikipedia

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    Substantive due process is to be distinguished from procedural due process. The distinction arises from the words "of law" in the phrase "due process of law". [ 3 ] Procedural due process protects individuals from the coercive power of government by ensuring that adjudication processes, under valid laws, are fair and impartial.

  5. Conflict of laws in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Conflict of laws in the United States is the field of procedural law dealing with choice of law rules when a legal action implicates the substantive laws of more than one jurisdiction and a court must determine which law is most appropriate to resolve the action. In the United States, the rules governing these matters have diverged from the ...

  6. Substantive rights - Wikipedia

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    One example of substantive right is substantive equality. Substantive equality is concerned with equality of outcome for all subgroups in society including disadvantaged and marginalized groups. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Substantive rights are contrasted with procedural rights , which are purely formal rules of law that only prescribe how a law ought ...

  7. Legal technicality - Wikipedia

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    These are aspects of procedural law. Other legal technicalities deal with aspects of substantive law, that is, aspects of the law that articulate specific criteria that a court uses to assess a party's compliance with or violation of, for example, one or more criminal laws or civil laws. [3]

  8. Erie doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court has defined substantive rights as, "rights conferred by the law to be protected and enforced by the adjective law of judicial procedure." An example of a substantive right would be a state law on fraud, which may vary widely in composition depending on the jurisdiction. If the state law is merely procedural, or relating merely ...

  9. Public law - Wikipedia

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    Public law comprises constitutional law, administrative law, tax law and criminal law, [1] as well as all procedural law. Laws concerning relationships between individuals belong to private law. The relationships public law governs are asymmetric and unequalized. Government bodies (central or local) can make decisions about the rights of persons.