#antedated

• Antedated — Bearing a date prior to the one on which it was actually drawn up, signed, or executed. The term applies to documents, contracts, invoices, or letters whose temporal coordinates have been intentionally advanced, either to align the legal effects of a retrospective agreement or for fraudulent purposes.
• Antedated — Bearing a date prior to the one on which it was actually drawn up, signed, or registered; inscribed with a retroactive chronology. In a technical and legal sense, it describes the status of a document whose formal effects have been brought forward in time, either out of a legitimate procedural need or as a result of a forgery.