...phrase is Chief Justice Marshall's justly Huded expression in Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch. (US) 138: "An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed." If this be an exact definition, then...

...the meaning of that term; and in Fletcher v. Peck, U Crancb, 138, Chief Judge Marshall said that "an ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when committed." See, also. Anderson v. Baker, 23 Md. 531,...

...manifestly unjust and oppressive. In Fletcher v. Peck, Chief Justice Marshall said at page 138: An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. The change in punishment need not be...

...contracts into which the State may enter." " The State Legislatures can pass no ex post facto law. An ex post facto law is one which renders an Act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law, may inflict penalties on...

...of the United States, article I, section 10, forbids the States to pass any ex post facto law. "An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in, a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed" (Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Crunch, 138). This...

...of the United States, article I, section 10, forbids the States to pass any ex post facto law. "An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed" (Fletcher v. Peck, 6 Cranch, 138). This...

...committed, and for which suits were then pending, must be regarded as an export facto law, and void. An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed, whether by personal or pecuniary penalties....

...Justice Marshall in delivering the opinion of the Court in Fletcher vs. Peck, 6 Cranch, 38, says: " An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in -which it was not punishable when it was committed;" _ which definition Chancellor Kent...

...this violates the ex post facto clause, as explained by Chief Justice Marshall in Fletcher v. Peck: An ex post facto law is one " . . .which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed. Such a law may inflict penalties on...

...this case could be deduced from the principle on "ex post facto" laws. Marshall explained that "an ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed." But what constituted "punishment"?...