| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1855 - 700 pages
...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... | |
| North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 590 pages
...an ex post facto law, within the State v. Bond. view of the Constitution, to be as follows : " 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2nd. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was before it was committed. 3rd.... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...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 *done, criminal; or which aggravated a crime, *409 and made' it greater than it was when committed ; or which changed... | |
| William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
...al! ît_waà impossible that protection should be certainly extended to any.11 law that makes an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, or which aggravates a crime and makes it greater than it was when it was committed, or which changes... | |
| Nathan Howard (Jr.) - Civil procedure - 1862 - 612 pages
...more comprehensive definition. He says : " An ex post facto law is : First, any law which makes an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal. Second, any law which aggravates a crime, and makes it greater than when it was committed. Third, any... | |
| James Kent - Law - 1866 - 722 pages
...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 * done, criminal ; or which aggravated a crime, and made * 409 it greater than it was when committed ; or which changed... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1867 - 732 pages
...gave a definition which has heen ever since substantially adopted as the law. He said, it is: " First. Every law that makes an action done before the passing...the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, an<J punishes such action. "Second. Every law that aggravates a crime and makes it greater than it... | |
| John Norton Pomeroy - Constitutional law - 1868 - 588 pages
...and intent of the prohibition. § 516. " (1.) Every law that makes an action done before the passage of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal,...makes it greater than it was when committed : " (3.) Everj r law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to... | |
| Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Constitutional law - 1868 - 776 pages
...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 passing...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... | |
| Law - 1883 - 548 pages
...application to criminal cases. It defines four distinct classes of laws embraced by the clause. " 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 3d. Every law that aggravates the crime or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3d. Every law... | |
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