People ex rel. McCrea v. Thatcher

Citations

• 95 Ill. 109
• 1880 Ill. LEXIS 154

Syllabus

<p>1. Statute—construction as to being retrospective. Ifc is a doctrine applicable to all laws, that it will not be supposed the legislature intended a law should have a retrospective operation, except when that intention has been manifested by the most clear and unequivocal expression.</p> <p>Taxes—act of 1879 adding one per cent per month interest. Section 177 of the Revenue law, as amended by the act of 1879, which took effect July 1, 1879, providing that all unpaid taxes on real estate from and after the first day of May shall bear interest at the rate of one per cent a month until paid or forfeited, has no application to taxes assessed and levied before the amendatory act took effect.</p>