 | Electronic journals - 1886 - 968 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 when... | |
 | California - California - 1886 - 992 pages
...laws, what are — Justice Chase thus defines ex post facto laws: "1. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. "2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than when committed.... | |
 | James Joseph McGovern - 1888 - 510 pages
...words and intent of the constitutional prohibition, as follows : " 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,... | |
 | John Innes Clark Hare - Constitutional law - 1889 - 744 pages
...severe.6 The prohibition of ex post facto legislation includes, 1. "Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when... | |
 | Jabez Gridley Sutherland - Law - 1891 - 836 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 when... | |
 | John Wilford Overall - Constitutional history - 1892 - 206 pages
...held, in Calder vs. 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... | |
 | Joel Prentiss Bishop - Criminal law - 1892 - 922 pages
...his opinion the constitutional term ex poet facto law embraces, "1. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal ; and punishes such action. 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, and makes it greater than it was... | |
 | Abraham Clark Freeman - Law reports, digests, etc - 1893 - 1062 pages
...of this country. They define the following laws aa ex pott facto: 1. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; 2. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than when it was... | |
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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. 
