Contracts
Oct. 13, 2005
Moving Dotted Lines: Laws Can Alter Private Contracts
Focus Column - By Terri R. Brown - Can the terms of a private contract be retroactively altered by legislation? Yes. This fact was important in California after the Northridge earthquake. And it may become important again, in other states, after Hurricane Katrina.
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