Editing Procedural law (section)

===Procedural law and substantive law in various languages===
"Procedural law" in contrast to "[[substantive law]]" is a concept available in various legal systems and languages. Similar to the English expressions are the Spanish words ''derecho adjetivo'' and ''derecho material'' or ''derecho sustantivo'', as well as the Portuguese terms for them, ''direito adjetivo'' and ''direito substantivo''. Other ideas are behind the German expressions ''formelles Recht'' (or ''Verfahrensrecht'') and ''materielles Recht'' as well as the French ''droit formel/droit matériel'', the Italian ''diritto formale/diritto materiale'' and the Swedish ''formell rätt/materiell rätt''; all of which, taken literally, mean "formal" and "material" law.

The same opposition can be found in the Russian legal vocabulary, with ''материальное право'' for substantive law and ''процессуальное право'' for procedural. Similar to Russian, in [[Bulgarian language|Bulgarian]] "материално право" means substantive law and ''процесуално право'' is used for procedural. In Chinese, "procedural law" and "substantive law" are represented by these characters: "程序法" and "实体法". In Germany, the expressions ''formelles Recht'' and ''materielles Recht'' were developed in the 19th century, because only during that time was the Roman ''actio'' split into procedural and substantive components.