...Juttice Story thus defines a retroactive, or, as he calls it, a retrospective law: "Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions...

...enactment In Society v. Wheeler, 2 Gall. 105, Fed. Cas. No. 13,156, Story, J., said: "Upon principle, each statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions...

...which relates or looks- backward, which affects an act done, or a right accrued hefore its passage. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes я new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions...

...Story in Society, etc., v. Wheeler, 2 Gall. 105, Fed. Cas. No. 13,156, is as follows: "Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions...

...to laws, seems to be synonymous. Justice Story thus defines a restrospective law : ' Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions...

...synonymous," and he quotes approvingly Judge Story's definition of a retrospective law : / '* Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty or attaches a new disability in respect to transactions...

...terms. In defining a retroactive or retrospective law, which terms they treat as synonymous, they say : 'Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions...

...or the legal character of past Acts, the presumption against a retrospective operation is strongest. Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates anew obligation, or imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability in respect of transactions...

...law, seem to be synonymous. * * * Mr. Justice Htory thus defines a retroactive law: 'Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights, acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disabiliy in respect to transactions...

...says they have a right to hold. They infringe the twentieth article. By that article it is de clared that, in questions of property, there is a right to...rights, acquired under existing laws, must be deemed retrospective."*1 That all such laws are retrospective was decided also in the case of Dash v. Van...