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Declaratory and remedical Act

the common law, or the meaning or effect of any statute. Such Acts are usually held to be retrospective. A remedial Act, on the contrary, is not necessarily retrospective; it may be either enlarging or restraining and

Ex post facto

Ex post facto [jure] (from a law made after); i.e., the law is retrospective, being passed only after the thing prohibited was done.

Mirror des justices

precision, treats of all branches of the law, whether civil or criminal. Besides this, it gives a cursory retrospect of some changes ordained by former kings; enumerates a list of abuses, as the author terms them, of

Bona vacantia

leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the … to bona vacantia, see (English) Administration of Estates Act 1925, ss. 45 and 46, and ESCHEAT. And see Law of Property Act, 1922, Sch. 12 (11) (c) and (English) Land Registration Act, 1925, s. 80; FINDER; UNCLAIMED

Mortgage

were commonly provided for before the Act by express terms in the mortgage deed. These ss. are not retrospective. Before this Act, in the absence of a power of leasing, a valid lease could only be granted … such proviso, the legal estate becomes perfected in the mortgagee, i.e., indefeasible, and so lost at the Common Law to the mortgagor. Until the mortgage has been foreclosed, or unless the property has been sold under powers

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