Manning v. Travelers Insurance Company

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• recognizing that when a statute has the effect of rewriting an antecedent contract or, more specifically changing the substantive rights of the parties to an existing contract, retroactive application is constitutionally prohibited regardless of legislative intent
• obligation of contract is impaired where new and different liabilities are imposed thereunder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).