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  2. Procedural law - Wikipedia

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    Procedural law, adjective law, in some jurisdictions referred to as remedial law, or rules of court, comprises the rules by which a court hears and determines what happens in civil, lawsuit, criminal or administrative proceedings.

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    the law of the country in which an action is brought out lex lata: the carried law The law as it has been enacted. lex loci: the law of the place The law of the country, state, or locality where the matter under litigation took place. Usually used in contract law, to determine which laws govern the contract. / ˈ l ɛ k s ˈ l oʊ s aɪ / lex ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Letter and spirit of the law - Wikipedia

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    The argument over the "Spirit of the Law" vs. the "Letter of the Law" was part of early Jewish dialogue as well. [3] The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25–37) is one of the New Testament texts to address this theme. The passage concerns a dialogue between Jesus and an "expert in the law" or "lawyer".

  6. Substantive law - Wikipedia

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    Substantive law is the set of laws that governs how members of a society are to behave. [1] It is contrasted with procedural law , which is the set of procedures for making, administering, and enforcing substantive law. [ 1 ]

  7. Legal fiction - Wikipedia

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    Child adoption is a legal fiction in that the adoptive parents become the legal parents, notwithstanding the lack of a biological relationship. [5] Once an order or judgment of adoption is entered, the biological parents become legal strangers to the child, legally no longer related nor with any rights related to the child.

  8. Law of evidence in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    The South African law of evidence forms part of the adjectival or procedural law of that country. It is based on English common law. It is based on English common law. There is no all-embracing statute governing the South African law of aspects: Various statutes govern various aspects of it, but the common law is the main source.

  9. Glossary of law - Wikipedia

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    At common law, this was the name of a mixed action (springing from the earlier personal action of ejectione firmae) which lay for the recovery of the possession of land, and for damages for the unlawful detention of its possession. The action was highly fictitious, being in theory only for the recovery of a term for years, and brought by a ...