Opinion ID: 1513201
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: the validating act

Text: Under the above construction, we do not reach the argument of the Comptroller that the Legislature has clearly manifested its approval of the establishment of The University at its present site by making further and substantial appropriations for its operation and by enacting a validating act. The 62nd Legislature in June of 1971, after the events which transpired above, enacted a statute [2] which validates time warrants issued by Commissioners Courts. Section 5 of that Act also specifically says that, All actions of a Commissioners Court ... in acquiring property and the subsequent conveyance of such property by deeds of record ... to the Board of Regents of The University of Texas ... are hereby ratified and confirmed and in all things approved. Then in Section 9, the Act says that it shall not apply to acts, orders, resolutions or other instruments the validity of which is directly involved as a party in litigation at the time this Act becomes effective. This is a strange validating act. The time warrants, the deeds, et cetera, are certainly not parties to any litigation. Nor are the Commissioners Court, the County, or the Regents parties. And it is contended that in any event, they are not directly involved. Be that as it may, we do not use the validating act as a basis of our decision herein. The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals is reversed, and the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.