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 Translation for 'retroactivity' from English to French
NOUN   retroactivity | -
effet {m} rétroactifretroactivity
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Translation for 'retroactivity' from English to French

retroactivity
effet {m} rétroactif
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Usage Examples English
  • The case continues to be one in a long line of sometimes inconsistent precedents in civil retroactivity analysis.
  • The tobacco companies had claimed that the retrospectivity and retroactivity of the Act violated the rule of law by creating an unfair trial.
  • The Racial Justice Act for All was amended by the Assembly on May 24, 2021 to create a phased-in approach to retroactivity.
  • Non-retroactivity is the legal principle that laws do not apply retroactively, whether international laws such as treaties or in criminal law (opposing "ex post facto" law).
  • Russia" (2013), the court found no violation of the convention regarding Russian investigations into the 1940 Katyn massacre, but this ruling was on the principle of non-retroactivity because the massacre happened before the ECHR was drafted.

  • That is because the limitation of the retroactivity to the sentence's date redress goes against the Spanish Civil Code.
  • The Monnier, who defended himself by invoking the non-retroactivity of the Austro-Sardinian Convention on Copyright in 1840, was sentenced to compensation of 34,000 lire.
  • The November 2015 edits additional safe guards from releasing repeat, violent offenders and applied retroactivity to sentences.
  • The question, for Roberts, is whether this retroactivity will pass constitutional muster.
  • In 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Contrada was convicted for acts that at that time were not a crime, in violation of the principle of non-retroactivity of criminal law ("nulla poena sine lege").

  • The Supreme Court said that the law did not take into account political conditions and presidential immunity in calculating the statute of limitations, the prosecution failed to prove earlier charges against the defendants (producing only photocopies, with no legal value, of supposed legal proceedings from the late 1970s and early 1980s), and Article 14 of the Constitution bans retroactivity of laws.
  • Statutory retroactivity has usually been disfavored, and is in many instances forbidden by the "Ex Post Facto Clause" of the Constitution.
  • However, in criminal law, "ex post facto" sanctions are effectively forbidden as per Article 112-1 of the French Penal Code, except in cases wherein the retroactive application benefits the accused person (called retroactivity "in mitius").
  • In recent times, some authors have considered this concept as an extension of (or at least as analogous to) the other ancient concept (typical of criminal law) that no one can be punished under a law that was issued after the action was committed (non-retroactivity of the law.
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