Usually means: Applying new facts to past.
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  1. relation back: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
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Definitions from WordNet (relation back)

noun:  (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time ("His attorney argued for the relation back of the ammended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed")


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