Usually means: Law retroactively changes legal consequences.
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  1. ex post facto law: Wordnik
  2. ex post facto law: Dictionary.com
  3. Ex post facto law: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  4. ex post facto law: FreeDictionary.org
  5. ex post facto law, Ex post facto law: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. ex post facto law: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Ex post facto law: Legal dictionary

Definitions from Wikipedia (Ex post facto law)

noun:  An ex post facto law(from ) is a law that retroactively changes the legal consequences or status of actions that were committed, or relationships that existed, before the enactment of the law.


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