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Definition of Retroacted
1. retroact [v] - See also: retroact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retroacted
Literary usage of Retroacted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"... a suit against a State; Ex parte State, 52 Ala. 236, 23 Am. Eep. 572, holding
repeal of law authorizing suit against State retroacted ..."
2. A Treatise on Proceedings in Rem by Rufus Waples (1882)
"When condemnation took place against the enemy property, ordered by Congress to
be proceeded against, the decree necessarily retroacted to the date when ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... and ethnological studies have retroacted upon the theories of anthropology.
The grand system of the evolution of culture, that is valid for all humanity ..."
4. History of the United States of America Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"... that it retroacted upon the earlier territory of the Louisana purchase,—that
it annulled the sacred pledge of 1820. Such was the argument in which Davis ..."
5. History of the United States of America: Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1904)
"More mischievous by far did the precedent actually prove, under the claim now
set up by the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska act, that it retroacted upon the ..."
6. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1914)
"... the subsequent naturalization retroacted in his favor, removed the infirmity,
and entitled him to a patent.75 The case in which this rule was ..."
7. The Blindman's World and Other Stories by Edward Bellamy (1898)
"... but the influence of the disillusionment instantly retroacted with the effect
of making the entire noble and romantic cult which had led up to this ..."
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