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Ex Post Facto
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What does Ex Post Facto mean?
adjective
- Retroactive.
- Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it.
adverb
- By retroactive application of a law formulated or enacted after the deed in question.
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They are in terms too plain and positive to allow any one to doubt for a moment of their having been composed ex post facto.
The States are prohibited from making ex post facto laws in criminal cases, and any person condemned by virtue of a law of this kind can appeal to the judicial power of the Union.
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The opportunities of acquiring an abnormal thirst had been here limited; a noble use of them had, however, been made, and again I was compelled to deal with the result in an ex post facto manner.
Many attempts had been made to set aside this singular bequest; their ex post facto character rendered them abortive; but the attention of a jealous government was aroused, and a legislative act finally obtained, forbidding all similar accumulations.