• n.
    ⦿(law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time
    lexical concept
  • his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechnoun
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:relation
  2. enl:relation back
wn:interlingual indexili:i68131

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
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  • relation back
  • relationrelation back