It has been repeatedly decided in this court, that the retrospective operation of such a law forms no objection to it.
2.
The courts may also interpret a law in such a manner that any objection against it of retrospective operation may be removed.
3.
Kentridge AJ nevertheless remarked that it may be that a purely prospective operation of a change in the common law will be found to be appropriate when it results from the application of a constitutional enactment which does not itself have retrospective operation .
4.
According to the account furnished by Mr . Lynch in his book, " The Bench and Par of Mississippi, " " Judge Stockton appeared and begged to exhibit in writing, a statement of the case, " etc . He filed an elaborate brief, citing abundant authorities in support of the proposition that such legislation could have no retrospective operation, and contended that " the judges had been governed by pure motives and decided according to established law . " Pointed interrogatories were then put by the committee of the house touching the propriety of punishing a ministerial officer " for executing a law before the same had been declared unconstitutional by the court ."
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