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Definition of Retroacting
1. retroact [v] - See also: retroact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retroacting
Literary usage of Retroacting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1911)
"... except in the solitary instance of state decisions retroacting on antecedent
contracts, and this principle appears to have been adopted by this court, ..."
2. A History of Philosophy: From Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, George Sylvester Morris, Henry Boynton Smith, Noah Porter, Vincenzo Botta (1891)
"... as in fact it is not by the planetary spheres on those still inferior,
retroacting spheres, or spheres with a counter-motion, are requisite. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"... except in the solitary instance of State decisions retroacting on antecedent
contracts, and this principle appears to have been adopted by this court, ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1859)
"But while the rule 12 remains in force, I can hardly think that the court will,
by any retroacting decision, overturn a jurisdiction which has been ..."
5. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1885)
"Further, itis prescribed that no one shall be tried by special or retroacting
laws, or special courts; that no person or corporation shall enjoy either ..."
6. History of Mexico by Hubert Howe Bancroft, William Nemos, Thomas Savage, Joseph Joshua Peatfield (1885)
"Further, it is prescribed that no one shall be tried by special or retroacting
laws, or special courts; that no person or corporation shall enjoy either ..."
7. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"and retroacting being. Only hastily, as we pass along, can we point out the
insuperable obstacles which would lie in the way of the attempt to personify ..."
8. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1882)
"... which are in addition to other acts, and in extension of the powers therein
granted, taking effect from the time of its passage, and not retroacting. ..."
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