The phrase "substantive law" is correct and commonly used in written English, particularly in legal and academic contexts.
You can use it when discussing the actual laws that define rights, duties, and obligations, rather than procedural or technical aspects of the legal system. Example: "The jury must determine whether the defendant's actions constitute a violation of substantive law, as outlined in the statute."
In the law of succession, the rules governing the making of wills are English, whereas the substantive law of testamentary and intestate succession is largely Roman-Dutch.
They have been adopted literally or in substance by a majority of U.S. states and clarify and rationalize a major element in the substantive law of crimes.
And I think it does not reflect a desire to change the law or in any way affect what the substantive law is.
In constitutional systems such as the United States, the judiciary is deeply involved in the process of public decision making; the courts actually produce much of the substantive law that bears on private individuals and economic groups in society.
"Not only do you have the substantive law and the procedural law, but you have the whole cultural orientation," said Anthony L. Ricco, who has represented a series of terrorism defendants over the past two decades.
She is author of EU Employment Law, The Substantive Law of the EU: The Four Freedoms, and European Union Law; and has edited various collections of essays on EU law.
There is "an ideological conflict between an Assembly that will remain the defender of progressive values and an executive who's moving hard to the right," Mr. Brodsky said, "and perhaps more importantly in the long run, a constitutional battle over whether the governor can put substantive laws into appropriations and make the Legislature irrelevant".
A treaty demonstrates the fullest American political support, and it signals that Congress will follow through on appropriations or substantive laws needed to give effect to its terms.
Lane's considerable intellectual qualities were not confined to the academic aspects of the substantive criminal law.
In a stream of pellucid judgments, he did much to put the substantive criminal law on a modern footing.
"A revisiting of substantive patent law in the context of the community patent is not warranted," it said in its submission to the commission.
