post facto — >> ex post facto. Webster s New World Law Dictionary. Susan Ellis Wild. 2000 … Law dictionary
ex post facto law — n: a civil or criminal law with retroactive effect; esp: a law that retroactively alters a defendant s rights esp. by criminalizing and imposing punishment for an act that was not criminal or punishable at the time it was committed, by increasing … Law dictionary
ЗАКОН EX POST FACTO — англ. law, ex post facto; нем. Gesetz ex post facto. 1. Интерпретация уже происшедших (в прошлом) событий как закономерных. 2. В праве обратная сила закона принцип, согласно к рому закон может быть применен к отношениям, принятым до его… … Энциклопедия социологии
ЗАКОН EX POST FACTO — англ. law, ex post facto; нем. Gesetz ex post facto. 1. Интерпретация уже происшедших (в прошлом) событий как закономерных. 2. В праве обратная сила закона принцип, согласно к рому закон может быть применен к отношениям, принятым до его… … Толковый словарь по социологии
ex post facto — 1 / eks ˌpōst fak tō/ adv [Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward]: after the fact: retroactively cannot judge ex post facto ex post facto 2 adj 1: done, made, or formulated after the fact … Law dictionary
ex post facto clause — n often cap E&P&F&C: the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from passing any ex post facto laws Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 … Law dictionary
ex post facto laws — (Latin: After the fact laws.) Laws that provide for the infliction of punishment upon a person for some prior act that, at the time it was committed, was not illegal. Dictionary from West s Encyclopedia of American Law. 2005 … Law dictionary
law — / lȯ/ n [Old English lagu, of Scandinavian origin] 1: a rule of conduct or action prescribed or formally recognized as binding or enforced by a controlling authority: as a: a command or provision enacted by a legislature see also statute 1 b:… … Law dictionary
ex post facto law — law that retroactively makes criminal conduct that was not criminal when performed, increases the punishment for crimes already committed, or changes the rules of procedure in force at the time an alleged crime was committed in a way… … Universalium
Ex post facto law — An ex post facto law (from the Latin for after the fact ) or retroactive law, is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences of acts committed or the legal status of facts and relationships that existed prior to the enactment of the… … Wikipedia
ex post facto law — /eks powst faektow 16/ A law passed after the occurrence of a fact or commission of an act, which retrospectively changes the legal consequences or relations of such fact or deed. A law is unconstitutionally ex post facto if it deprives the… … Black's law dictionary