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I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES
Remedial law prescribes the methods of enforcing those rights and obligations created
by substantive law by providing a procedural system for obtaining redress for the invasion
of rights and violations of duties and by prescribing rules as to how suits are filed, tried
and decided by the courts.
As applied to criminal law, substantive law is that which declares what acts are crimes
and prescribes the punishment for committing them, as distinguished from remedial law
which provides or regulates the steps by which one who commits a crime is to be
punished.
What is a Court
(1) It is an organ of government belonging to the judicial department the function of
which is the application of the laws to the controversies brought before it as well as the
public administration of justice.
(2) It is a governmental body officially assembled under authority of law at the
appropriate time and place for the administration of justice through which the State
enforces its sovereign rights and powers (21 CJS 16).
(3) It is a board or tribunal which decides a litigation or contest (Hidalgo v. Manglapus,
64 OG 3189).