...for the court quoted with approval Mr. Justice STOBY'S definition of a retrospective law as follows: "Every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, of attaches a neiv disability, in respect to transactions...

...in the case of The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, &. v. Wheeler et al: 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...

...particular way". In the Woodward case a retrospective law is defined 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...

...law. Under the constitutional prohibition, the general assembly has no power to pass retroactive laws. 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...

...character are forbidden by the constitutions, the courts have construed the term as applicable only to a statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates new obligations, imposes new duties, or adopts a new disability in respect to transactions...

...retroactive laws as such. Judge Story is quoted as defining retrospective laws 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 responsibility in respect to transactions...

...forbidding it, does not apply unless it interferes with contract or vested rights.25 "Upon principle every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws or creates a new obligation, imposes a new dutj', or attaches a new 19 "The Congress shall have power...

...139. Fed. Cas. No. 13,156, Mr. Justice 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...

...vs. Denver, 27 Colo. 95, 59 Pac. 747, this court, in speaking of retrospective legislation, said : "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 liability, in respect to transactions...

...case the court quoted with approval Mr. Justice Story's definition of a retrospective law as follows : "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...