An ex post facto law is a law which fixes a penalty for acts done before the law was passed, or which increases the penalty of a crime after it is committed.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed" by Congress.
That no ex post facto law, no law impairing the obligation of contracts, nor any bill of attainder shall be passed; that there shall be no special laws in certain specified cases.
No bill of attainder[1] or ex post facto law[2] shall be passed.
An ex post facto law is, literally, one which acts back upon a deed previously performed.
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
An ex post facto law is retroactive, making criminal an act that was not a crime when committed, or increasing the punishment for past crimes.
Would any one pretend to say that a State might enact an ex post facto law or pass a bill of attainder?
What security is there to an individual," he asked, if the Legislature of the Union or any particular State, should pass an ex post facto law?
Therefore, it was provided in America's fundamental law that "no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.
On the occasion to which I have alluded, I maintained that the provision of a bill then pending, similar to that I now object to, was arbitrary, unconstitutional and unjust, because it was in the nature of an ex post facto law.
He had no objection to privilege the soldier from arrest after enlistment, but he could not consent to the passage of a law, having an ex post facto operation, which went to exempt him from obligations previously contracted.
The constitution itself, he said, was opposed to the measure, for it was an ex post facto law, which was prohibited in express terms.
There is no attainder of treason, no ex post facto law, and no taking of property without due process of law; for the judicial proceedings which these bills institute are competent for the purpose.
There must be no ex post facto law; which means that there can be no law against crime retrospective in its effect.
M^r Wilson was against inserting any thing in the Constitution as to ex post facto laws.
On the second part relating to ex post facto laws-- M^r Carrol remarked that experience overruled all other calculations.
The proceedings on this motion involving the two questions on "attainders and ex post facto laws," are not so fully stated in the printed Journal.
Art: 7, the clause following, to wit, "The Legislature shall pass no bill of attainder nor any ex post facto law.
Retrospective laws, punishing acts committed before the existence of such laws, and by them only declared criminal, are oppressive, unjust and incompatible with liberty; wherefore no ex post facto law ought to be made.
These have been called ex post facto laws, and are exploded by the new system.
She shall pass no bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of a contract.
She had not intended going to Sukey's, but after her mother's peremptory demand for information, she formed the ex post facto resolution to do so, that her answer might not be a lie.
Mrs. Bays and her husband had driven to town, and there was no need for ex post facto resolutions.
No ex post facto resolution could cure that lie, though of course it is a privileged one to a girl.
Do you believe, that the Legislature will pass a bill of attainder, or an ex post facto law?
But the American people have said, in the constitution of the United States, that 'no state shall pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts.
Why provide that "no bill of attainder, or an ex post facto law, shall be passed?
Yet an ex post facto law is the instrument which a legislature is most apt to use for punishing the unpopular use of legal rights.
There is among the Restrictions no prohibition against the passing of an ex post facto law.
There is not a landlord, there is not a magistrate, there is not a constable in Ireland, who may not tremble in fear of ex post facto legislation.
An ex post facto law is defined by the United States Supreme Court as one which "makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action.
Nevertheless, if, and in so far as, a researcher succeeds in making a discovery, some of his personal credit is reflected upon his methods ex-post facto.
Moreover, it is not so much its immediate and prospective use which justifies it, though this yields the usual motive for its adoption, as the ulterior uses ascertained ex post facto by experience.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "post facto" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
