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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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Commentaries on the Laws of England ...

William Blackstone - Law - 1890 - 902 pages
...(3 Dall. 390), though purely a dictum, have been accepted by the courts ever since as correct. "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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Statutes and Statutory Construction: Including a Discussion of Legislative ...

Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 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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Lectures on the Constitution of the United States

Samuel Freeman Miller - Constitutional law - 1891 - 800 pages
...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. 3d. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment, than the law annexed...
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New Commentaries on the Criminal Law Upon a New System of Legal ..., Volume 1

Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...United States, Chase, J. stated that in his opinion the constitutional term ex poet facto law embraces, "1. Every law that makes an action done before the...such action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, and makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts...
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A Catechism of the Constitution of the United States of America: With ...

John Wilford Overall - Constitutional history - 1892 - 206 pages
...Bull, 3 Dallas, that the prohibition to pass an ex post facto law meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal. Also, a law which aggravated a crime, and made it greater than it was when committed, or which altered...
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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 31

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1074 pages
...very generally adopted by the courts of this country. They define the following laws as ex post facto: 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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The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value ..., Volume 37

Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1024 pages
...facto laws, within the words and intent of the prohibition: 1. Every law tbat makes an action drne before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such aotion; 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed; 3. Every...
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The Constitution of the United States at the End of the First Century

George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...criminal which was not criminal when the act was done, and provides for the punishment of the act; (2.) Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it...committed; (3.) Every law that changes the punishment, and provides for a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when it was committed ; (4.) Every...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 42

Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1164 pages
...v. Bull, 3 Dalí. 390, Mr. Justice Chase defined what he considered ex post facto laws as follows: (1) Every law that makes an action done before the...committed; (3) every law that changes the punishment, and v.42p.no. 1—2 inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed; (4)...
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The Pacific Reporter, Volume 42

Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 1232 pages
...Justice Chase defined what he considered ex post facto laws as follows: (1) Every law that makes au action done before the passing of the law, and which...committed; (3) every law that changes the punishment, and v.42P.no.l— 2 Inflicts a greater punishment than the law annexed to the crime when committed; (4)...
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