Remedial Statutes

Remedial statutes, 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 judges, or from any other cause. This being effected either by enlarging the Common Law where it is too narrow and circumscribed, or by restraining it where it is too lax and luxuriant, has occasioned a division of remedial Acts of Parliament into enlarging and restraining statutes, 1 Bl. Com. 86.