Statutory Construction on Different Statutes

          Statutory Construction on Different Statutes

·      Curative statutes

-         enacted to cure defects in a prior law or to validate legal proceedings which otherwise be void for want of conformity with certain legal requirements

-         their purpose is to give validity to acts done that would have been invalid under existing laws, as if existing laws have been complied with

-         retroactive

·         Redemption laws

-         Remedial in nature

-         construed liberally to carry out purpose, which is to enable the debtor to have his property applied to pay as many debtor’s liability as possible

·         Statutes providing exemptions from execution

-         Interpreted liberally in order to give effect to their beneficent and humane purpose

-         Construed in favor of the exemption from execution

·         Laws on attachment

-         Liberally construed in order to promote their objects and assist the parties in obtaining speedy justice

·         Warehouse receipt laws

-         Liberally construed in favor of bona fide holders of such receipts

·         Probation laws

-         Liberally construed to achieve objective, to give first-hand offenders a second chance to maintain his place in society through the process of reformation

·         Statute granting powers to an agency created by the Constitution

-         Liberally construed for the advancement of the purposes and objectives for which it was created

Based on the book, Statutory Construction by Ruben E. Agpalo