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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. "
War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests ... - Page 570
by William Whiting - 1871 - 695 pages
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The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 9

Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 838 pages
...will state what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition: 1. Every law that makes an action, done before the...that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than when it was committed; 3. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment...
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A Treatise on the Limitations of Police Power in the United States ...

Christopher Gustavus Tiedeman - Police power - 1886 - 722 pages
...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 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...
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The American Law Register, Volume 25; Volume 34

Electronic journals - 1886 - 968 pages
...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 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...
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The American Decisions: Containing All the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 14

Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 856 pages
...fuller description of ex post facto laws, than that of Blackstone. He lays it down, that every law which makes an action done before the passing of the law,...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; or, which aggravates a crime and makes it greater than it was when committed; or, which changes the...
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The Atlantic Reporter, Volume 87

Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1152 pages
...decision ex post facto laws were grouped into four classes, as follows: (1) Every law that makes an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; (2) every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than It was when committed; (3) every law...
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Introduction to American Law: Designed as a First Book for Students

Timothy Walker - Law - 1887 - 880 pages
...considered that the following would be ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition : 1. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocfnt when done, criminal. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or tlie punishment thereof, after...
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The Life and Writings of the Right Reverend John McMullen, D. D.: First ...

James Joseph McGovern - 1888 - 510 pages
...post facto laws within the words and intent of the constitutional prohibition, as follows : " 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...
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American Constitutional Law, Volume 1

John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 744 pages
...is or is not thereby rendered more severe.6 The prohibition of ex post facto legislation includes, 1. "Every law that makes an action done before the...that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater pun1 1 Blackford, 193. 4 13 Allen (Mass.), 581. * 5 Win. 308. • 107 US 230. 8 23 Miss. 261. 6 Fletcher...
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American Constitutional Law, Volume 1

John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 748 pages
...is or is not thereby rendered more severe.6 The prohibition of ex post facto legislation includes, 1. "Every law that makes an action done before the...when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2. Ever}7 law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law that...
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The American and English Encyclopedia of Law, Volume 7

John Houston Merrill, Thomas Johnson Michie, Charles Frederic Williams, David Shephard Garland - Law - 1889 - 1090 pages
...Facto Laws. — Ex post facto laws are commonly classed as follows : 1 — i. Laws that make an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punish such act." Mag. 550; sc, 16 Cent. L. Tour. 308; at the time. Eno v. Mayor, 53 How. Pr. United...
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