Procedural law

Definition - Noun
: law that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (as in a suit) and that is distinguished from law that creates, defines, or regulates rights <the federal courts in diversity actions must apply state substantive law and federal procedural law ­Miller v. American Dredging Corp., 595 So. 2d 615 (1992)>
also
: a particular law of this nature
compare substantive law



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