context: An enactment also may be regarded as "remedial in nature" if its object is to correct existing law, "to redress existing grievances[,] and to introduce regulations conducive to the public good."
citation_a.signal: no signal
citation_a.identifier: 273 Md. 195, 208
citation_a.parenthetical: holding "remedial in nature" the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act of 1965
citation_a.sentence: State v. Barnes, 273 Md. 195, 208, 328 A.2d 737 (1974)(holding “remedial in nature” the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act of 1965). As such, remedial statutes “are to be liberally construed in order to advance the remedy and obviate the mischief.”
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.parenthetical: holding that statute would be applied retroactively when to do so would better effect the remedial intentions of the Legislature in enacting it.
citation_b.sentence: Id.; Coburn v. Coburn, 342 Md. 244, 256, 674 A.2d 951 (1995); see also Janda, 237 Md. at 171, 205 A.2d 228 (holding that statute would be applied retroactively when to do so would better effect the remedial intentions of the Legislature in enacting it.).