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Definition of Ex post facto

Ex post facto
Ex post facto Ex" post` fac"to, or Ex postfacto Ex" post`fac"to ([e^]ks" p[=o]st" f[a^]k"t[-o]). [L., from what is done afterwards.] (Law) From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.

Meaning of Ex post facto from wikipedia

- An ex post facto law is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences or status of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed...
- punishment, the Court ruled 6-3 that it is not an unconstitutional ex post facto law. Justices John Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer...
- entitled Bills of Attainder; Ex Post Facto or Retroactive Laws: Impairing Obligation of Contracts: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law,...
- "Ex Post Facto" is the eighth episode of Star Trek: Voyager. In this science fiction television show episode, the 24th century spaceship USS Voyager is...
- violate the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, nor the constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause. The case was a consolidation of three similar cases, Mascitti...
- Court decided four important points of constitutional law. First, the ex post facto clause of the United States Constitution applies to criminal laws that...
- and pleaded that the act of Congress was a bill of attainder and an ex post facto law, which unfairly punished him for the crime for which he had been...
- such activity. However, the Constitution of the Philippines prohibits ex post facto laws, and as such de Guzman could not be prosecuted. The ILOVEYOU worm...
- wrote, In the context of common law doctrines... Strict application of ex post facto principles... would unduly impair the incremental and reasoned development...
- Non-retroactivity is the legal principle that laws do not apply retroactively and ex post facto laws are forbidden. This principle may be applied to judicial decisions...