procedural has definitions from the field of law
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[ adjective ] of or relating to procedure

Examples

"a procedural violation"

Used in print

(U.S. Reports. Volume 364. Cases Adjudged in the...)

Petitioner first contends that the Department denied him procedural due_process by not giving him timely opportunity , before its final recommendation to the appeal_board , to answer the statement of the local board as to his claim of devoting 100 hours to actual preaching .

He alleged no specific procedural errors or evidence withheld ; nor did he elaborate just what favorable evidence the Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation reports might disclose .

(The Department of State: A Fresh Look at the...)

What I am suggesting is that when we delay , or when we fail to act , we do so intentionally and not through inadvertence or through bureaucratic or procedural difficulties .

The problem in the policy officer 's mind thus begins to take_shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors - political , military , economic , financial , legal , legislative , procedural , administrative - to be sorted_out and handled within a political_system which moves by consent in_relation_to an external environment which cannot be under_control .

Related terms

procedure

2
[ adjective ] (law) applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure

Synonyms

adjective

Examples

"adjective law"

Related terms

substantive law

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