nonretroactivity
English
editEtymology
editFrom non- + retroactivity.
Noun
editnonretroactivity (uncountable)
- The quality (especially of a law) of not being retroactive.
- 2008 February 21, Linda Greenhouse, “Justices Rule on Retroactivity of Decisions”, in New York Times[1]:
- The question for the court in this case was whether state courts, in considering postconviction appeals from criminal defendants, are bound by the same rule of nonretroactivity.