 | James Kent - Law - 1832 - 590 pages
...States. It was held, that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when n Billis ndt. the State, 2 M-Cord's Rep. 12. 6 4 Peten' US Rep. 410. c 3 Dalltu, 386. done, criminal... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1839 - 762 pages
...facto laws, within the words and the intent of the prohibition. 1st. 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... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - Law - 1846 - 708 pages
...criminal, and not to civil cases. Those laws only are ex post facto which either, 1, make an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; or, 2, aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was when committed;... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1855 - 682 pages
...criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, is included — 1st. 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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - Constitutional law - 1848 - 1040 pages
...Justice, in delivering the opinion, defines ex post facto laws to be, 1st, Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes the action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1851 - 706 pages
...States. It was held, that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent *409 when *done, criminal ; or which aggravated a crime, and made it greater than it was when committed... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1854 - 714 pages
...States. It was held, that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent *409 when *done, criminal; or which aggravated a crime, and made it greater than it was when committed... | |
 | James Kent - Law - 1858 - 732 pages
...States. It was held, that the words ex post facto laws were technical expressions, and meant every law that made an act done before the passing of the law,...when *done, criminal; or which aggravated a crime, *409 and made' it greater than it was when committed ; or which changed the punishment, and inflicted... | |
 | William Blackstone, George Sharswood - Law - 1860 - 874 pages
..._JJ4J.'TnjaB'nU "f al! ît_waà impossible that protection should be certainly extended to any.11 law that makes an act done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, or which aggravates a crime and makes it greater than it was when it was committed, or which changes the punishment... | |
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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. 
