Davis v. Dawes
4 Watts & Serg. 401
Opinion
— The Commonwealth had an undoubted power to pass a retrospective law impairing her own right; and whether the flour was originally forfeited or not, the penalty was remitted or rather declared not to have been incurred, by the subsequent Act.
Judgment affirmed.
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