selective prospectivity

selective prospectivity. A court’s decision to apply a new rule of law in the particular case in which the new rule is announced, but to apply the old rule in all other cases pending at the time the new rule is announced or in which the facts predate the new rule’s announcement. [Cases: Courts 100(1).C.J.S. Courts §§ 147–148.]

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