 | John Marshall - 1839 - 762 pages
...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 of...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... | |
 | Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd - 1846 - 708 pages
...relates only to 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...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action; or, 2, aggravate a crime, or make it greater than it was when committed; or, 3, change the punishment,... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - 1855 - 682 pages
...Constitution, extends to criminal and not to civil cases. And under this head, is included — 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... | |
 | E. Fitch Smith - 1848 - 1004 pages
...v. J3u//,(6) Chase, Justice, in delivering the opinion, defines ex post facto laws to be, 1st, Every law that makes an action done before the passing of...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 committed. 3.... | |
 | North Carolina. Supreme Court, Hamilton Chamberlain Jones - 1857 - 590 pages
...post facto law, within the State v. Bond. view of the Constitution, to be as follows : " 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of...innocent when done, criminal, and punishes such action. 2nd. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was before it was committed. 3rd.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1867 - 732 pages
...definition which has heen ever since substantially adopted as the law. He said, it is: " First. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of...the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal, an<J punishes such action. "Second. Every law that aggravates a crime and makes it greater than it... | |
 | John Norton Pomeroy - 1868 - 570 pages
...and intent of the prohibition. § 516. " (1.) Every law that makes an action done before the passage of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal,...that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed : " (3.) Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater punishment... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1868 - 776 pages
...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 of...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... | |
 | 1885 - 544 pages
...what laws I consider ex post facto laws within the words aud the intent of the prohibition: (1) Every law that makes an action done before the passing of...that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed; (3) every law that changes the punishment and inflicts a greater punishment... | |
 | 1890 - 548 pages
...consider ex pnst facto laws, within the words and the intent of ihe prohibition : 1. Every law that make; an action done before the passing of the law, and...that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was when committed. 3. Every law that changes the punishment, and inflicts a greater 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. 
