 | John Wilford Overall - Constitutional history - 1892 - 206 pages
...offender. An ex post facto law the same court held, in Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, was one which rendered an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable at the time of its commission. The prohibition applies both to Congress and State legislatures. Such... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 1024 pages
...forbidden by the constitution. Thus Chief Justice Marshall, in Fletcher v. Petit, 6 Crunch, 138, said: " An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed." The point, however, was not involved in the case in which this language was employed.... | |
 | Ernest Wilson Huffcut, Edwin Hamlin Woodruff - Contracts - 1894 - 762 pages
...those contracts into which the State may enter? The state legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...those contracts into which the State may enter? The State legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - United States - 1894 - 188 pages
...law is a law which makes an act punishable that was not punishable when committed, or which makes au act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed. 101. Export Duties.— Congress may not lay a tax or duty on articles exported from any State. Such... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...contracts into which the State may enter? The State legislatures can pass no Kit pott facto law. An лг post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 830 pages
...those contracta into which the state may enter? The state legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | Alexander Haring - Engineering law - 1910 - 542 pages
...those contracts into which the State may enter? The state legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on the person, or may inflict pecuniary penalties... | |
 | William Augustine Miller, William Stockton Hornor - United States - 1910 - 286 pages
...individual, without such individual first having been tried and convicted by a court. An ex-post-facto law is one "which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed:" as, if, after a man had stolen a horse, the penalty for doing which was five years... | |
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An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. 
