 There is still a more unreasonable method than this, which is called making of laws ex post facto ; when after an action, indifferent in itself, is committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment...  Georgia Reports: Charlton-65 Georgia - الصفحة 401903 - عدد الصفحات: 677عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Elihu Hall Bay - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...after an action indifferent in itself is committed, the legislature then, for the first time, declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment upon the person who did it. They also cited The Federalist, vol. 2. p. 345, 346. where it is expounded in the same way.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Richard Peters - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 758
...action, indifferent in itself, has been committed, the legislator then for the first time, declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment upon the person wbq has committed it." This is precisely what Wooddeson calls a penal statute, passed ex post facto... | |
 | William Paley - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...after an action (indifferent in itself) is committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment upon the person who has committed it. All laws should be made to commence " in futuro," and be notified before their commencement. When the... | |
 | Sir William BLACKSTONE - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...after an action, indifferent in itself, is committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment...punishment for not abstaining must of consequence he cruel and unjust. All laws should be therefore made to commence in juturo, and be notified before... | |
 | John Marshall - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 762
...an action, indifferent in itself, is committed, the legislator, then, for the first time, declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment...to guilt by a subsequent law ; he had, therefore, DO cause to abstain from it ; and all punishment, for not abstaining, must, of consequence, be cruel... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...have been a crime, and to inflict a punishment upon the person who has committed it, because it was impossible that the party could foresee that an action, innocent when it was done, would be afterwards converted into guilt by a subsequent law. He had therefore no cause to abstain... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...the party could foresee that an action, innocent when it was done, would be afterwards converted into guilt by a subsequent law ; he had therefore *no cause to abstain L -" from it, and all punishment for not abstaining must, of consequence, be cruel and unjust.6 With... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1864 - عدد الصفحات: 536
...action, indifferent in itself, has been committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment upon the person who has committed it." This is precisely what Wooddesson calls a penal statute, passed ex post facto ; but it by no means... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...after an action (indifferent in itself) is committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment...is impossible that the party could foresee that an The law which has just been read is not another c laws of homicide, men of the jury, yet it is fully... | |
 | Demosthenes - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...after an action (indiflerent in itself) is committed, the legislator then for the first time declares it to have been a crime, and inflicts a punishment...is impossible that the party could foresee that an o2 The law which has just been read is not another of the laws of homicide, men of the jury, yet it... | |
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