relation back

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noun

(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
- his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed
• Syn:
relation
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
legal principle, judicial principle, judicial doctrine