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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.

Demonstration starts

134(2) must be sought and given in advance, in contradistinction to during the course of the demonstrations or retrospectively, R (Haw) v. Home Secretary (DC), (2006) 2 WLR 50.

Deemed

r. 3(3)(b) of the Regulation of Seniority Rules indicates that the Govt. has the power to make a retrospective declaration because it is only after promotion that there is any occasion to consider whether the period of

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Common informer

the (English) Larceny (Advertisements) Act, 1870, the informers have lost the benefit of their penal action by a retrospective enactment that proceedings therein be stayed in payment of their costs out of pocket. See PENAL STATUTE.

Bona vacantia

leasehold property reverted to the grantor. Hastings Corporation v. Letton, (1908) 1 KB 378, s. 296 is not retrospective, Re Katherine Ltd., (1932) 1 Ch 70, and (1933) 2 Ch 29. As to the rights of the

Retroactive

Fitted or designed to retroact operating by returned action affecting what is past retrospective

Ex post facto

From or by an after act or thing done afterward in consequence of a subsequent act retrospective

Settled land

Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38), came into operation on the 1st January, 1883, was retrospective, and though not repealing the Act of 1877, rendered its provisions comparatively useless. The main objects of the

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