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Remedial statutes

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penal statute

penal statute : penal law ;esp : a law that calls for a penalty as opposed to one providing for

Act of Parliament

to the mere letter; (3) these points must be considered'the old law, the mischief, and the remedy; (4) remedial statutes are to be more liberally, and penal more strictly, construed; (5) in construing a statute, all other statutes

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Preamble

the Sussex Peerage Case, (1844) 11 Cl&F 143; Winn v. Mossman, (1869) LR 4 Ex 299; Maxwell on Statutes; Hardcastle on Statutes; Mew's Digest, tit. 'Statute'; the effect of the cases being that as a general rule … an Act of Parliament, etc., serving to portray the interests of its framers, and the mischiefs to be remedied; a good mean to find out the meaning of the statute, and as it were a key to

Interpretation of Statute

Statute, Board of Muslim Wakfs v. Radha Kishan, AIR 1979 SC 289: (1979) 2 SCR 148. Interpretation of Statutes, as a general principle of interpretation, where the words of a statute are plain, precise and unambiguous, the

Suit

Suit, cannot include in its ambit execution or execution proceedings. The interpretation of word 'suit' in any particular statute will have to made in the content in which the same is used, Madalsa International Ltd. v. Central

Lien

sale. Sometimes a Court of Equity has decreed a sale as a part of its own system of remedial justice; and Courts of Admiralty have been constantly in the habit of decreeing a sale to satisfy maritime … respect of which it was acquired can no longer be enforced by an action, on account of the Statute of Limitations, for the statute does not put an end to the debt but only to the remedy

Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum

known laws of the land''(as laid down in Magna Carta and other statutes), made the writ more actively remedial by imposing penalties for disobedience to the writ, and otherwise. This statute extends only to the case of

remediate

[the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to the pollution at or on the site "General Statutes of Connecticut"] … remediate : to make the target of remedial action [the commissioner of environmental protection…shall conduct remedial actions necessary to the pollution at or on the site

Public right

such as the right of the public to pass along a highway, or they may be conferred by statute in either case if the statute does not provide a remedy; the remedy for infringement is by indictment

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