Substantive law defines, in regard to a
specific subject, the legal rights and relationship of people with other
people or as between them and the state.Thus, murder is an offence under Indian
penal code (IPC) and is defined there in. The IPC also provides for
punishment for the crime.
This is known as substantive law, Similarly,
the provision of the Indian contract Act,1872, are substantive in nature,
procedural law (Eg: Cr.PC, 1973) deals with the methods and means by which substantive
law is made and administered. It lays down the rules governing the
manner in which a rights is enforced under civil law (such as the Indian
penal code).
Thus, provision of substantive law
defines rights and duties, while procedural law provides the machinery
for enforcing those rights and duties.
