substantive

In a sentence

Six example sentences with substantive, each labelled with its topic.

• Substantive law tells a citizen what may be owned or owed, while the timetables and filing forms belong elsewhere.

  Law

• The treaty's substantive articles create obligations between the two states; the annexes only describe how notices must be exchanged.

  Politics

• Company counsel separated the substantive terms, which fix what each side owes, from the schedule governing arbitration notices.

  Business

• Rawls separated substantive principles, which say what citizens owe one another, from the procedure by which such principles are chosen.

  Philosophy

• The substantive provisions of the securities act define what an issuer owes investors; the filing deadlines are dealt with elsewhere.

  Finance

• The charter's substantive clauses granted free men protection from arbitrary arrest, while later chapters merely fixed how courts would sit.

  History

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