Concept and Nature of Remedial Law

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1. Which description best identifies remedial law?
2. Which provision is ordinarily substantive rather than merely procedural?
3. Why is a law’s heading alone insufficient to classify it as procedural?
4. A rule governs how a complaint must be filed and served to enforce an existing legal right, without creating or taking …
5. A court rule purports to extinguish an existing substantive entitlement solely by announcing that the entitlement is in…
6. A litigant misses a clear filing requirement, offers no substantial justification, and demands automatic relaxation bec…
7. A proposed measure titled Court Filing Procedure changes who legally owns a debt and erases one party’s underlying enti…
8. Distinguish substantive law from remedial law using an underlying debt and the filing of an action to collect it.
9. Why does liberal construction of the Rules of Court not mean every procedural requirement is optional?
10. A draft procedural rule removes a substantive cause of action. Explain why the remedial label does not resolve its vali…
11. In De los Santos v. Vda. de Mangubat, why could the fresh-period rule apply to a pending action?
12. Does a party generally acquire a vested right in an unchanged rule of procedure?