Remedial

That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 Bla. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. See Wilberf. Stat. L. 231.

1. Affording a remedy; giving the means of obtaining redress.
2. Of the nature of a remedy; intended to remedy wrongs or abuses, abate faults, or supply defecte.
3. Pertaining to or affecting the remedy, as distinguished from that which affects or modifies the right.

— 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.

Affording a remedy. Remedial statute: a statute providing a remedy for an injury; a statute giving a person a remedy for a wrong, where he had none, or a different one, before.

See Eemedt.