Nonretroactivity

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality (especially of a law) of not being retroactive. uncountable

    "The question for the court in this case was whether state courts, in considering postconviction appeals from criminal defendants, are bound by the same rule of nonretroactivity."

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"The question for the court in this case was whether state courts, in considering postconviction appeals from criminal defendants, are bound by the same rule of nonretroactivity."

Etymology

From non- + retroactivity.

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