 Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.  Albany Law Journal - Side 2581890Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Alexander James Dallas - 1799 - 552 sider
...the paffing of the law, and which was ir.nsttnt when dor.c, criminal; and puniihes fuch action, га. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it war-, when committed, jd. Every law that changes tlti punißiiteut, and inflicts a greater pvnljhment,... | |
 | Benjamin Lynde Oliver - 1832 - 430 sider
...statutes only. See 3 Dal. 386. And therefore every law which makes an action done before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action, is an expost facto law, and consequently unconstitutional. So, if it aggravates a crime, or makes it... | |
 | James Kent - 1832 - 590 sider
...that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when n Billis ndt. the State, 2 M-Cord's Rep. 12. 6 4 Peten' US Rep. 410. c 3 Dalltu, 386. done, criminal... | |
 | Kentucky, Charles Slaughter Morehead, Mason Brown - 1834 - 808 sider
...Doll. 386. 2. The prohibition embraces, 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 sider
...the framing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action ; 2d, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed ; 3d, every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1836 - 550 sider
...however, held that the words ex post facto were technical expressions, and meant laws that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; or which aggravated a crime, and made it greater than it was when committed; or which changed the punishment,... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 sider
...consider ex post facto laws, within the words and the intent of the prohibition. 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and...innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 sider
...relates only to criminal, and not to civil cases. Those laws only are ex post facto which either, 1, make an action done before the passing of the law,...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; or, 2, aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was when committed; or, 3, change the punishment,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 682 sider
...to criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, is included — 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the passing of the law, and...innocent, when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime or makes it greater than it was, when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 sider
...Chase, Justice, in delivering the opinion, defines ex post facto laws to be, 1st, Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes the action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3.... | |
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