INTRINSIC AIDS IN CONSTRUCTION AND INTERPRETATION

INTRINSIC AIDS
Internal or within. Those aids within the statute. In resorting to intrinsic aids, one must go back to the parts of the statute, the title, preamble, context or body of the statute, chapter and section headings, punctuation and interpretation clause.

THE TITLE OF A LAW IS A VALUABLE INTRINSIC AID IN DETERMINING LEGISLATIVE INTENT

In case of doubt in its language to its construction. If the meaning of the statute is obscure, courts may resort to the title to clear the obscurity.

PREAMBLE AS AN INTRINSIC AID

The intent of the law as culled from its preamble and from the situation, circumstances and conditions it sought to remedy, must be enforced. CASE: Eugenio vs. Drilon

FACTS - May 10, 1972 Palmiano purchased on

instalment two lots from Eugenio -Cases Nos. 2619 and 2620 non-development

-NHA Resolution ordering petitioner to cease and desist from making further sales -Case No. 80-589 - complaint filed by Prospero Palmiano against Petitioner and spouses Relevo

ISSUE:
Whether or not the failure to develop a subdivision constitute legal justification for the non-payment of amortizations by a buyer on instalment under land purchase agreements entered into prior enactment of P.D. 957, The Subdivision and Condominium Buyers Protective Decree

HELD: YES.