Category:Retroactive

Re`tro*act"ive, a. Etym: [cf. F. rétroactif.]

Defn: fitted or designed to retroact; operating by returned action; Affecting what is past; retrospective. Beddoes. Retroactive law or Statute (law), one which operates to make criminal or punishable, or In any way expressly to affect, acts done prior to the passing of the Law.