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Retrospective statutes, means 'a statute is to be deemed to be retrospective, which takes away or impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or consideration already past, Craies on Statute Law, 7th Edn., p. 387.

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