REME'DIAL, adjective [Latin 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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