Remedial statute

A statute providing a remedy for an injury, as distinguished from a penal statute. A statute giving a party a mode of remedy for a wrong, where he had none, or a different one, before.

1 Chit. Bl. 86, 87, notes.

Remedial statutes are those which are made to supply such defects, and abridge such superfluities, in the common law, as arise either from the general imperfection of all human laws, from change of time and circumstances, from the mistakes and unadvised determinations of unlearned (or even learned) judges, or from any other cause whatsoever.

1 BL Comm. 86.

Remedies for rights are ever favorably extended.

18 Vim Abr. 521.