 | William Henry Silvernail - 1897 - 1130 pages
...People v. Hayes, 56 St. Rep. 456 ; 140 NY 484 ; aff'g 54 St Rep. 184; 26 NY Supp. 194. A law which aggravates a crime or makes it greater than it was when committed, or one which changes the punishment or inflicts > a greater punishment than the law annexed to the... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 678 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... | |
 | United States. Dept. of the Interior - 1898
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition: First, every law that makes an action done before the passing...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; second, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed; third, every... | |
 | United States. Office of Indian Affairs - 1898
...state what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words and intent of the prohibition: First, every law that makes an action done before the passing...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes snoh action: second, every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed:... | |
 | 1899
...But this definition is also open to criticism. lt is in order to take up group (1), which comprises: (1) Every law that makes an action done before the...was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action.—lt had previously been observed with reference to certain English ex post facto laws that... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1917
...which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates the crime or makes it greater than it was when committed....punishment and inflicts a greater punishment than was annexed to the crime when committed. 4. Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence, and... | |
 | Idaho. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1903
...Garland, 4 Wall. 333; Drehman v. Stifle, 8 Wall. 595.) Any law that makes an act done before the passage of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such act, is ex post facto, and void. (Calder v. Bull, 3 Ball. 386; Kring v. State of Missouri, 107 U. S.... | |
 | E. Lauterpacht, C. J. Greenwood - 1993 - 758 pages
...facto laws. He concluded, at 390, that it proscribed four types of laws. They were: (i) laws that make an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punish such action; (ii) laws that aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was, when committed;... | |
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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. 
