 | Alexander James Dallas - 1799 - 552 էջ
...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 - 428 էջ
...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 էջ
...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 - 810 էջ
...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,...action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or that makes il greater than when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment and inflicts a... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Isaac Newton Blackford - 1836 - 550 էջ
...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 էջ
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws, within the words and the intent of the prohibition. 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the...was when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th.... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 էջ
...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, and...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,... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 էջ
...of Colder v. J3u//,(6) Chase, Justice, in delivering the opinion, defines ex post facto laws to be, 1st, Every law that makes an action done before the...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.... | |
 | John Bouvier - 1855 - 774 էջ
...post facto laws, within the words and intents of the prohibition ; 1st. Every law that makes an act done before the passing of the law, and which was...was when committed. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed. 4th.... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 700 էջ
...post facto, in the Constitution, extends to criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, h included — 1st. Every law that makes an action, done before the passing of the law, and which was t'n» nocent, when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime... | |
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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. 
