This Code establishes the law of the Guam respecting the subjects to which it relates, and its provisions and all proceedings under it are to be liberally construed with the view to effect its objects and to promote justice.

SOURCE: Former Civil Code § 4, Code of Civil Procedure § 4, Probate
Code § 100, Government Code § 5, &2.

COMMENT: This Section has been modified from the above sections to meet present conditions of this Code. This Section brings together the second sentence of § 4 found in both the Civil and Civil Procedure Codes. In applying it to the whole of the Guam Code Annotated, the intent is to create one body of law to which one can refer on the topics which are covered therein. As shown by § 102 and § 104 of this Title, there are many different sources of Guam laws at the present time. Upon completion of this project, there should be only three sources; this Code, the Session Laws and the Current Laws.

2018 NOTE: Reference to “”Territory”” removed and/or altered to “”Guam””
pursuant to 1 Guam Code Ann. § 420.