Nagle v. Wood

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• holding substantive legislation is not applied retroactively absent a clearly expressed legislative intent to that effect
• a statute affecting substantive rights is presumed to apply prospectively absent clear legislative intent to create retroactivity
• statute expanding inheritance rights of ‘‘illegitimate children’’ operated prospectively as to future deaths but, apparently, encompassed children born before enactment

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