retrospective
Applying to circumstances existing before the date on which a law came into effect.
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LAW, RETROSPECTIVE. A retrospective law is one that is to take effect, in point of time, before it was passed.
The motion for such judgment is made where after a pleading by the defendant in confession and avoidance, as for example, a plea in bar and issue joined thereon and verdict found for, the defendant, the plaintiff on retrospective examination of the ...
Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively.
Some decisions are so fundamental to justice they may have a retroactive effect, depending on the balance between stability of the law and the public good. Retroactive is also called "retrospective".
Ex post facto: (Latin: after the fact) Ex post facto legislation retrospectively makes acts illegal which were committed before the law was passed.
In order to fall within it, the law must act upon the terms of the agreement, and not merely upon the mode of procedure. If it act not upon the terms but upon the remedy, it impairs the obligation if it purport to be retrospective, ...
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