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equity

: a system of law originating in the English chancery and comprising a settled and formal body of substantive and procedural rules and doctrines that supplement, aid, or override common and statutory law [the judicial power shall

Adjective law

Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 42. Means the body of law in State consists of two parts, substantive and adjective law. The former prescribes those rules of civil conduct which declare the rights and duties of

adjective law

the portion of the law that deals with the rules of procedure governing evidence, pleading, and practice compare substantive law

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Proceeding

enforcing or protecting a legal right and further embracing the requisite steps to be taken whether procedural or substantive. Also means forms in which relief is sought before courts of law or before other bodies or authorities

Charitable uses and trusts

some further changes chiefly affecting the formalities of conveyance and the transmission of legal estate without altering the substantive incidents of the law relating to gifts of land to charities or their right to hold or convey

Acquiescence

The result is that binding legal effect is given to silence and inaction. Acquiescence, as a principle of substantive law, is grounded in the concepts of good faith and equity.

procedure

for the enforcement or administration of rights, duties, justice, or laws [civil ] [police ] compare procedural law, substantive law 2 : a particular and esp. established way of doing something [a medical ] [security s]

conspiracy

act by means prohibited by law ;also : the crime or tort of participating in a conspiracy compare substantive crime NOTE: Some states require an overt act in addition to the agreement to constitute conspiracy. chain conspiracy

remedial

to, or being a law enacted for the purpose of providing a method of enforcing an already existing substantive right : procedural

Saving-to-suitor clause

a party to bring suit in either State or Federal Court but requires both courts to apply federal substantive law, 28 USCA 1333.

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