Crossword-Solution: RETROACTS
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| Legally affects past performances. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
ADLROS
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with RETROACTS (2)
Thus the shoulder generally rises less when the head retroacts than when it advances toward the object of its contemplation.
The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in its true application, as employed in American law, it relates only to crimes, and signifies a law which retroacts, by way of criminal punishment, upon that which was not a crime before its passage, or which raises the grade of an offense, or renders an act punishable in a more severe manner that it was when committed.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1954).