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The ICSI material classifies statutes into eight classes. Which of the following is correctly defined?
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B.
1. The eight classes are: Codifying, Declaratory, Remedial, Amending, Consolidating, Enabling, Disabling or restraining, and Penal.
2. **Remedial statutes alter the common law, or the judge-made (non-statutory) law** — this matches the ICSI definition exactly.
3. *Declaratory* statutes do not make any alteration in the existing law but merely declare or explain it (so option A is wrong). *Codifying* statutes codify the **unwritten law** on a subject (option B mis-defines it as restraining alienation, which is *Disabling*). *Enabling* statutes remove a restriction or disability (option D mis-defines it as Penal).
4. The ICSI in-line question box confirms: 'Declaratory statutes are when merely explain what it is — answer (C).'
_Source: ICSI CS Executive — Lesson 3, 'Introduction — classes of statutes', p. 84._
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