 | Wisconsin. Attorney General's Office - 1915
...would take away or impair vested rights acquired under existing statutes. A retroactive law is one "which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired...respect to transactions or considerations already past." Gray v. City of Toledo, 89 NE 12, 13; 80 Oh. St. 445, 447. The particular constitutional provision... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Finance - 1973
...death case be in point. IV. Judicial Hostility to Retroactive Legislation A retroactive statute is one which "takes away or impairs vested rights acquired...respect to transactions or considerations already past." Society for Propagation of the Gospel v. Wheeler, Fed. Cas. No. 13,156, 2 Gall. 105, 139; see also... | |
 | Minnesota. Supreme Court - 1872
...takes away or impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions already past, is not to be deemed retrospective, but prospective only in its operation, unless the... | |
 | 1887
...takes away or impairs any vested right acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions already past, . is to be deemed retrospective or retroactive. * * * No new ground for the support of... | |
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