Retrospective
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Looking backward
A retroactive _ law is one which applies to with reference to past transaction, or to impair vested rights. RETTE (Law Fr.) In old English law. An accusation or charge. Quant clerk est prise par rette de felony, when a clerk is taken on a charge of felony. St. Westminster I. c.
2.
RETTER (Law Fr.) In old English law. To accuse; to charge; to lay to the charge; to account; in old English, to arret, or arrect. Ceo purra il retter a sa negligence, he must charge this to his own negligence. Britt. c.
59.
Ceo poies retter a vostre folly demesne, you may lay this to your own folly.
Y. B. H. 10 Edw. III. 8.
II serra rette la folly, it shall be accounted the folly.
Litt. § 261.
R ETT U M ( Law Lat.; from Law Fr. rette, q. V.) In old English law. An accusation; a charge. 'Si elerieus aliquis pro erimine aliquo vel retto — arrestatus fuerit, if any clerk shall have been arrested for any crime or charge. St. Marlb. c.
28 (27).