What’s Tort Law? Liability, Negligence, Obligations And Remedies
For instance, substantive law dictates the type of punishment that someone could receive upon being convicted at the conclusion of his criminal trial. For instance, substantive law is used to determine whether a crime was a hate crime, whether or not a homicide was dedicated in self-defense, and so on. Substantive law is then relied upon to determine the rights which are afforded to the accused.
If property was stolen or someone was injured or killed, the guilty individual had to pay the weregild as restitution to the sufferer’s household or to …