enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ex post facto law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law

    This same work, however, also makes use of the three-word phrase ex post facto, (2.14.17.4.2, 4.6.17.1.1, passim), suggesting that post might best be understood as an adverb. Other adverbial usages of post include the Classical Roman author and senator Marcus Tullius Cicero employing phrases such as multis post annis ( De Re Publica 2.5.8 and ...

  3. Calder v. Bull - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_v._Bull

    Every ex post facto law must necessarily be retrospective; but every retrospective law is not an ex post facto law: The former, only, are prohibited. Every law that takes away, or impairs, rights vested, agreeably to existing laws, is retrospective, and is generally unjust, and may be oppressive; and it is a good general rule, that a law should ...

  4. Category:Ex post facto law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ex_post_facto_law

    Ex post facto case law (1 C, 7 P) N. Nuremberg trials (3 C, 66 P) Pages in category "Ex post facto law" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.

  5. The Ex Post Facto Bar and the Prosecution of Crimes Against ...

    www.aol.com/news/ex-post-facto-bar-prosecution...

    The protections provided by the ex post facto bar are fundamental to American jurisprudence, but equally important to this nation’s collective values and global leadership role is the commitment ...

  6. Rogers v. Tennessee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_v._Tennessee

    Rogers v. Tennessee, 532 U.S. 451 (2001), was a U.S. Supreme Court case holding that there is no due process violation for lack of fair warning when pre-existing common law limitations on what acts constitute a crime, under a more broadly worded statutory criminal law, are broadened to include additional acts, even when there is no notice to the defendant that the court might undo the common ...

  7. List of Latin phrases (E) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Latin_phrases_(E)

    ex post: from after "Afterward", "after the event". Based on knowledge of the past. Measure of past performance ex post facto: from a thing done afterward: Said of a law with retroactive effect ex professo: from one declaring [an art or science] Or 'with due competence'. Said of the person who perfectly knows his art or science. Also used to ...

  8. Ignorantia juris non excusat - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat

    In recent times, some authors have considered this concept as an extension of (or at least as analogous to) the other ancient concept (typical of criminal law) that no one can be punished under a law that was issued after the action was committed (non-retroactivity of the law. See ex post facto). This interpretation is however disputed, given ...

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

    projects.huffingtonpost.com/dying-to-be-free...

    At his graduation from a program in Michigan that lasted 45 days called A Forever Recovery, Quenton told her he was worried about leaving. “I don’t know, Mom. I’m safe here,” Ann recalled him saying. “I said, ‘Quenton, you don’t have to go home.’ He said, ‘No, Mom, it’s time to start my life.