Relation back

Definition - Noun
: the assigning of a prior date (as the date of execution of a document) to an act (as filing of a document and esp. a pleading) as the time of its effect esp. to avoid a time limit <the relation back of amendments to the date of the original pleading>
also
: the legal fiction that an action (as the filing of a document) was taken on a previous date to avoid the expiration of a time limit



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inevitable discovery

a doctrine in criminal law: evidence obtained by methods that are unconstitutional may be admissible if it would have been inevitably discovered without the unlawful methods


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