Remedial Law

That part of the body of the law which contains the remedies by which rights are enforced and wrongs redressed, and the rules by which the substantive law (g. V.) is applied. ing grievance, or to introduce some regulation or proceeding conducive to the public good. 58 in. 247; 30 111. App. 109; or remove some defect in the law, and thus giving a more perfect remedy for private wrongs. Used usually in contradistinction to "penal statute," but sometimes to "declaratory statute." A penal law may be also remedial, and a statute may be remedial in one part and penal in another. 103 111. 390.