ex post facto

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Definition of ex post facto in English Turkish dictionary: makabline şamil

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Definition of ex post facto in English English dictionary: Formulated or enacted after some event, and then retroactively applied to it; Retroactive; After the fact; an act of fact occurring after some previous act or fact, and relating thereto; –– applied "after the fact," thereby disregarding the previous circumstances, status, or legal character of an event; after the fact, an act or fact occurring after some previous act or fact and relating thereto; from after the deed; [Latin: after the fact] Legislation is called ex post facto if the law attempts to extend backwards in time and punish acts committed before the date of the law's approval Such laws are constitutionally prohibited in most modern democracies For example, the USA Constitution prohibits "any ex post facto law" The only modern example of such law in the UK is the War Crimes Act 1991; After the fact, ordinarily used in reference to constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws For example, a person cannot be punished for conduct committed before a criminal law was enacted; - Laws that may an act criminal when it was not criminal at the time that it was committed; After the fact The Constitution prohibits the enactment of ex post facto laws These are laws that permit conviction and punishment for a lawful act performed before the law was changed and the act made illegal; Latin: after the fact Legislation is called ex post facto if the law attempts to extend backwards in time and punish acts committed before the date of the law's approval Such laws are constitutionally prohibited in most modern democracies For example, the USA Constitution prohibits "any ex post facto law"; (Latin) Literally after the fact; fixing or changing punishment for an act after it was committed; 1 Latin term meaning " after the fact " Rules especially to a law that makes punishable as a crime an act done before the passing of the law and that was innocent when done An ex post facto law is also one that makes a crime more serious than when it was committed, inflicts a greater punishment, or alters legal rules of evidence to require less or different testimony to convict than the law required when the crime was committed Such laws violate provisions of the Constitution of the United States, which provide that neither Congress nor state shall pass an ex post facto law; Term used to designate action taken to change the effect given to a set of circumstances This action relates back to a prior time and places this new effect upon the same set of circumstances existing at that time; Literally, "after the fact " This refers to laws or rules that prohibit and attempt to punish behavior engaged in legally before the enactment of the law; adj (1787): done, made, or formulated after the fact; From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective; subsequently, retrospectively, after the fact; affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay"; (ex post fak'to) - After the fact; an act or fact, occurring after some previous act or fact, and relating thereto; affecting things past; "retroactive tax increase"; "an ex-post-facto law"; "retro pay