This term is never used in civil law, but the term "retroactive statute" expresses the same idea.
The retroactive effect of a new principle announced by a decision of an administrative tribunal has been likened to the effect of judicial decisions in cases of first impression.
Another example of valid retroactive taxation is to be found in a New York statute amending a 1930 estate tax law.
A special income tax on profits realized by the sale of silver, retroactive for 35 days, which was approximately the period during which the silver purchase bill was before Congress, was held valid.
Retroactive Legislation Disallowed The due process clause has been successfully invoked to defeat retroactive invasion or destruction of property rights in a few cases.
A tax may be made retroactive for a short period to include profits made while it was in process of enactment.
But I would not press this first principle by any retroactive proposition, unless where the faith of the Government is committed, and there I would not hesitate.
But a person who cannot take this oath, retroactive though it be, must have been a traitor.
In the words of Lord Stowell: "Upon property so detained the declaration of war is said to have a retroactive effect, and to render it liable to be considered as the property of enemies taken in time of war.
On the contrary, if the transactions end in hostility, the retroactive effect is directly the other way.
This would be the retroactive effect of that course of circumstances.
But, you see, Congress takes very good care not to enact retroactive laws for Americans; laws to take away from American citizens the property which they hold now, already, with a recognized legal title.
All now proposed is that Congress shall ratify the notice to the British Government, and by retroactive operation give validity to it.
But suppose he does, I would ask if the sovereign may not ratify his proceedings, and thus, by a retroactive operation, give validity to them?
Ferry, being avails of retroactive increase of salary passed during the expiring days of and for the Forty-second Congress, and this day placed in our hands by the Secretary of the Senate.
Winchell does not deny the unity of the race, nor the retroactive effect of the atonement upon those who lived before Adam; he simply denies that Adam was the first man.
So then I realised where Juggins retroactive existence is carrying him to.
In the year 1869, the question whether this act was retroactive in its operation or effect was presented to the supreme court.
It remains to find the justificatory reason for this retroactive movement of the body, which seems illogical at first sight.
This is what occurs in the retroactive attitude of the head.
And I have given my assurance that if any adjustment of wages is made by the Board, it will be made retroactive to April first.
If an adjustment in wages results from a decision of the War Labor Board, or from any new agreement between the operators and miners, which is approved by the War Labor Board, that adjustment will be made retroactive to April first.
Campbell-Bannerman, spoke of the "retroactive effect of old promises extracted in moments of agony from candidates at the general election.
It seems safe to say that elements at least of hysteria appear in this history, such as the profound retroactive amnesia and appearance of simulation in the conduct of the patient.
The interesting features of this case are that a typical stupor seems to have been precipitated by imprisonment, while the retroactive amnesia covering a painful period of the patient’s life reminds one of hysteria.
This proclamation was not retroactive in the sense that it established a new prohibition, but was merely explanatory of an accepted restriction upon trade with the enemy by British subjects.
Toward the close of November Great Britain's declaration with a retroactive effect put the contest upon a distinctly belligerent basis and accepted the date of the Transvaal's ultimatum, 5 p.
If a work has fallen into the public domain, even though subsequent to 1891, it would be retroactive to now bring it within the copyright law and deprive the public of its use.
The bill should not be a retroactive one, to punish the inventor and the capitalist for what they have done in the past to provide a field for the composer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "retroactive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
