Substantial law defined rights, and procedural law establishes the procedures by which rights are protected and enforced.

实体法界定权利，程序法则制定保护和实施权利的程序。

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Life imprisonment is defined as 60 years under state law.

按照州法律终身监禁定义为60年。

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Unlike marriage or the ties that bind parents and children, it is not defined or regulated by law.

不像婚姻或联结父母与孩子的纽带，它不被法律所定义或约束。

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English law defined seditious libel as criticizing the government in such a way as to reduce public confidence.

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The state law probably requires that a corporation have a board of directors, but it's also something that can be defined at the time that you create the corporation in the bylaws.

州法规定,公司必须要有董事会,但还有一些规定,是你在制订公司制度时自由规定的

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Or is international law defined in such a way that it applies only to General Pinochet?

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But even all these operations have to be conducted within international law, defined in this case as the provisions of the UN Law of the Sea Convention.

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The ruling reverses a voter-approved law that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

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