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ex post facto law : a civil or criminal law with retroactive effect ;esp : a law that retroactively alters a defendant's rights esp. by criminalizing and imposing punishment for an act that was not criminal or punishable at the time it was committed, by increasing the severity of a crime from its level at the time the crime was committed, by increasing the punishment for a crime from the punishment imposed at the time the crime was committed, or by taking away from the protections (as evidentiary protection) afforded the defendant by the law as it existed when the act was committed NOTE: Ex post facto laws are prohibited by Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution. ...
ex post facto
ex post facto [Late Latin, literally, from a thing done afterward] : after the fact : retroactively [cannot judge ex post facto] adj 1 : done, made, or formulated after the fact : retroactive 2 : of or relating to an ex post facto law [the chief concerns of the ex post facto ban "L. H. Tribe"] ...
ex post facto clause
ex post facto clause often cap E&P&F&C : the clause in Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution forbidding Congress from passing any ex post facto laws ...
Privilegia, or Laws ex post facto
Privilegia, or Laws ex post facto, laws which are enacted after an act is committed declaring it for the first time to have been a crime, and inflicting a punishment upon the person who has committed it. Compare Cicero Pro Domo, 17....
Ex post facto
Ex post facto [jure] (from a law made after); i.e., the law is retrospective, being passed only after the thing prohibited was done....
Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem vel causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur
Clausula vel dispositio inutilis per presumptionem vel causam remotam ex post facto non fulcitur [Lat.], An un-necessary clause or disposition is not upheld by a remote presumption or a cause arising after the event....
habitual criminal law
habitual criminal law : a law that imposes greater penalties if a convicted defendant has previously been convicted of one or more crimes NOTE: Some such laws have been challenged on the ground of violating the prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution or on the ground of being an ex post facto law. ...
retroactive
retroactive : extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past ;esp : made effective as of a date prior to enactment, promulgation, or imposition [a tax] see also ex post facto law ret·ro·ac·tive·ly adv ret·ro·ac·tiv·i·ty [-ak-ti-və-tē] n ...
Deed
Deed [fr. d'd, Sax.; ded gaded, Goth.;daed, Dut.], a formal document on paper or parchment duly signed, sealed, and delivered. It is either an indenture (factum inter partes) needing an actual indentation [(English) Real Property Act, 1845 (8 & 9 Vict. c. 106), s. 5], reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 56 (2), made between two or more persons in different interests, or a deed-poll (charta de una parte) made by a single person or by two or more persons having similar interests. By the (English) Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 57, a deed may be described according to the nature of the transaction, e.g., 'this lease,' 'this mortgage,' etc., or as a 'deed' and not habitually by the word 'indenture.'The requisites of a deed are these:-(1) Sufficient parties and a proper subject of assurance.(2) It must be written, engrossed, printed, or lithographed, or partly written or engrossed, and partly printed or lithographed in any character or in any language, on paper, vellum, or parchm...
Joint-tenancy
Joint-tenancy. This tenancy is created where the same interest in real or personal property is, by the act of the party, passed by the same matter of conveyance or claim in solido, and not as merchan-dise, or for purposes of speculation, to two or more persons in the same right, either simply, or by construction or operation of law jointly, with a jus accrescendi, that is, a gradual concentration of property from more to fewer, by the accession of the part of him or them that die to the survivors or survivor, till it passes to a single hand, and the joint-tenancy ceases.Anciently, joint-tenancy was favoured because it did not induce fractions of estates, and returning to early principles the (English) Land Legislation of 1925 has employed the tenure generally as the machinery by which legal estate may in such cases always be in some person, called the estate owner, who is competent to give a title to the whole estate without the concurrence of other parties. that legal estate has been ...
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