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Lex Prospicit

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

NON RESPICIT

The law looks forward, not backward.

Jenk. Cent. Cas. 284.

See "Retrospective Law."

See Retrospective Law.