Retroactive

Retrospective or retroactive law

Retrospective or retroactive law, as one which takes away or impairs vested or accrued rights acquired under existing law. A retroactive law takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 37A, pp. 224-225....

retroactive : extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past ;esp : made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition [a tax] see also ex post facto law ret·ro·ac·tive·ly adv ret·ro·ac·tiv·i·ty [-ak-ti-və-tē] n ...

vested right

vested right : a right belonging completely and unconditionally to a person as a property interest which cannot be impaired or taken away (as through retroactive legislation) without the consent of the owner ...

Retrospective law

Retrospective law, retrospective means looking backward; contemplating what is past; having reference to a statute or things existing before the Act in question. Retrospective law, according to the same dictionary, means a law which looks back-ward or contemplates the past; one which is made to affect acts or facts occurring, or rights occurring, before it came into force. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions or considerations already past. Retroactive statute means a statute which creates a new obligation on transactions or considerations already past or destroys or impairs vested rights, Darshan Singh v. Ram Pal Singh, AIR 1991 SC 1654: (1992) Supp 1 SCC 191....

Retroactively

In a retroactive manner...

Reflex

Directed back attended by reflection retroactive introspective...

Retroactive

Fitted or designed to retroact operating by returned action affecting what is past retrospective...

retrospective

retrospective : affecting things past : retroactive ;specif : of, relating to, or being a law that takes away or impairs vested rights, creates new duties or obligations, or attaches new disabilities with respect to acts and transactions completed before its enactment ret·ro·spec·tive·ly adv ...

reservation

reservation 1 : the act or an instance of reserving [ of rights] 2 : the creation by and for a grantor of a new right or interest (as an easement) in real property granted to another ;also : the right or interest so created or the clause creating it in a deed compare exception 3 a : public land reserved for a special purpose (as conservation) b : a tract of land reserved for use by an American Indian tribe see also Indian Removal Act of 1830 in the Important Laws section compare Indian title at title NOTE: The federal government has jurisdiction over certain serious felonies committed on American Indian reservations, and a member of a tribe is vested with the rights of an American citizen even if in a tribal court proceeding. Prior to the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, states could obtain civil and criminal jurisdiction over a reservation or other American Indian lands by legislative action, but that Act created the requirement that such jurisdiction be acquired with the cons...

ex post facto law

ex post facto law : a civil or criminal law with retroactive effect ;esp : a law that retroactively alters a defendant's rights esp. by criminalizing and imposing punishment for an act that was not criminal or punishable at the time it was committed, by increasing the severity of a crime from its level at the time the crime was committed, by increasing the punishment for a crime from the punishment imposed at the time the crime was committed, or by taking away from the protections (as evidentiary protection) afforded the defendant by the law as it existed when the act was committed NOTE: Ex post facto laws are prohibited by Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. ...

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