New Mexico Supreme Court August 18, 1942, No. 4700. (In Re Gossett's Estate)

Upon motion for rehearing it is said by appellants that we erred in holding that the statutes in question should be liberally construed, in that they are in derogation of the common law. Where a statute is both remedial and in derogation of the common law it is usual to construe strictly the question of whether it does modify the common law, but its application should be liberally construed.