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procedural lawLaw that prescribes the procedures and methods for enforcing rights and duties and for obtaining redress (e.g., in a suit). It is distinguished from substantive law (i.e., law that creates, defines, or regulates rights and duties). Procedural law is a set of established forms for conducting a trial and regulating the events that precede and follow it. It prescribes rules relative to jurisdiction, pleading and practice, jury selection, evidence, appeal, execution of judgments, representation of counsel, costs, registration (e.g., of a stock offer), prosecution of crime, and conveyancing (transference of deeds, leases, etc.), among other matters. |
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Because of their experience and background in procedural law as well as their centrality in criminal proceedings, escribanos acted as legal advisors to the three municipal lay magistrates and the thirty-two alcaldes de barrio, judicial personnel who had no prior legal training. Given the fact that Millennium's claim was completely groundless, the Regional Court imposed on Millennium the maximum costs of the proceedings permitted under the provisions of procedural law. The program emphasizes practical skills required of the paralegal including legal research, writing, and law office management in addition to substantive and procedural law. |
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