单词 | ex post facto law |
释义 | > as lemmasex post facto law Done after another thing, and operating retrospectively, esp. in ex post facto law. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adjective] > operating retrospectively retroactive1611 retrospect1709 ex post facto1789 1789 J. Bentham Introd. Princ. Morals & Legisl. xv. §3 Cases in which punishment must be inefficacious..Such are the cases of an ex-post facto law. a1811 R. Cumberland tr. Aristophanes Clouds in T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Comedies (1822) II. 148 May not I Take up the cause of youth..Remitting and consigning to oblivion All ex post facto beating? 1823 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. VI. 486 By an ex post facto law, those who had taken the first oath against the papal authority, were reputed to have taken..a second and much more comprehensive oath, which was afterwards enacted. 1852 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation (ed. 2) ii. vi. 279 They might have objected to the tax had it been ex post facto. < as lemmas |
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