Belation
Defined in 1 dictionary — Kinney (1893)
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
The carrying back of an act or proceeding to some previous time, and giving it operation or validity from such time; a fiction of law indulged for the promotion of justice by which the act or related is regarded as having been sons in the social state, as between, husband and wife, guardian and ward, etc.