 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1897 - 732 lapas
...prohibits the passage of such laws either by Congress or by any other legislative body. A law which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed has also been decided to be an ex post facto law. Various decisions of the courts specifically define... | |
 | Henry C. Northam - 1897 - 280 lapas
...f An Ex Post Facto Law, as defined by the Supreme Court of the United States, is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when the act was committed. For this and other prohibitions, see pages 137 and 138. TEEASOS. What is Treason*... | |
 | Royall Bascom Smithey - 1898 - 188 lapas
...legislative act, which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial." 8 This is a law which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. The prohibition in the constitution, against ex post facto laws, applies exclusively to criminal cases.... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1907 - 778 lapas
...prohibits the passage of such laws either by Congress or by any other legislative body. A law which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed has also been decided to be an cr post faclo law. Various decisions of the courts specifically define... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1908 - 874 lapas
...prohibits the passage of such laws either by Congress or by any other legislative body. A law which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed has also been decided to be an ex post facto law. Various decisions of the courts specifically define... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - 1908 - 608 lapas
...decisions gives thn following definition of ex post facto laws: "An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penal. 31 Prehman v. Stifle,... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - 1908 - 392 lapas
...decisions gives the following definition of ex post facto laws: "An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties which swell the... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 lapas
...to the principles of sound legislation. In order to come within the prohibition the law must render an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. It is not necessary, however, that the punishment be of a strictly criminal character. A law which... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 546 lapas
...those which simply affect private property. Chief Justice Marshall denned an ex post facto law to be one which rendered an act punishable in a manner in...which it was not punishable when it was committed. ExterritoriaTity, that legal fiction which permits to certain persons or classes of persons who may... | |
 | William Augustine Miller, William Stockton Hornor - 1910 - 286 lapas
...individual first having been tried and convicted by a court. An ex-post-facto law is one "which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed:" as, if, after a man had stolen a horse, the penalty for doing which was five years imprisonment, a... | |
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An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. 
