vested rights doctrine

vested-rights doctrine. Constitutional law. The rule that the legislature cannot take away a right that has been vested by a court’s judgment; specif., the principle that it is beyond the province of Congress to reopen a final judgment issued by an Article III court. — Also termed doctrine of vested rights. [Cases: Constitutional Law 110.]

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