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retrospective
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
reversion
termination to the former owner or to his or her successor in interest 2 a : the present vested interest in the residue of an estate that remains in its owner after the grant therefrom of a
reversioner
reversioner : one that has or is entitled to a reversion ;broadly : someone having a vested right to a future estate
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separation of powers
under which the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government are not to infringe upon each other's constitutionally vested powers see also nondelegation doctrine
Apparator, or Apparitor
of the Spiritual Courts. He holds his office at the pleasure of Parliament, and does not possess a vested interest in it. See the (English) Ecclesiastical Fees Act, 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 76).
Appeal, Court of (U.K.)
1873, the Appellate Jurisdiction Act, 1876, and the Judicature Act,1881, has, by Judicature (Consolidation) Act, 1925, s. 26, vested in it the appellate jurisdiction and powers of the Lord Chancellor and of the Court of Appeal in
Donative
or disposal of the patron; subject to his visitation only, and not to that of the ordinary; and vested absolutely in the clerk of the patron's deed of donation without presentation, institution, or induction. This is said
Court of record
are subordinate to the High Court and the control over the district courts and court subordinate thereto is vested in it, Constitution of India, Durga Das Basu, Vol. H, 6th Edn., p. 286. Although the Supreme Court
Charity Commissioners
of town charities in certain cases. All powers and authorities, by the Endowed Schools Acts (see that title), vested in the Endowed Schools Commissioners by the (English) Endowed Schools Act, 1874, were transferred to the Charity Commissioners,
Churchwardens
Trustee of Charity Lands, 1898 (2) Ch 59. They are sometimes appointed by the minister, sometimes by the Vestry and Parochial Church Meeting sitting together (see 11 & 12 Geo. 5 No. 1, s. 13), sometimes by
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