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Webster 1913 Edition

Remedial

Re-me′di-al

(-al)
,
Adj.
[L.
remedialis
.]
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil;
as,
remedial
treatment
.
Statutes are declaratory or
remedial
.
Blackstone.
It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not
remedial
, not conservative.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Remedial

REME'DIAL

,
Adj.
[L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal of an evil.
The remedial part of law is so necessary a consequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect. Statutes are declaratory of remedial.

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