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Definition of "ex post facto" []

  • Formulated, enacted, or operating retroactively. Used especially of a law. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ex post facto" in a sentence
  • "Every man should be protected in his lawful acts, and be certain that no ex post facto law shall punish or endamage him for them."
  • "No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; make any but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainuder, or ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility."
  • "No conviction for any offence shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture of estate; the Legislature shall pass no bill of attainder, ex post facto law, nor law for impairing the oligation of contracts."
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