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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > > > I pos facto.
> > > Actually, I think "I pos facto" translates to "Terry doesn't know
> > > latin".
> > Ugh.  "Ex pos facto".  "I pos facto" would be "before the fact".
> 
> Nope.  Still no cigar, even though I included the correct expression
> in the message you replied to.

I think that you lose something in the translation from Latin
to German to English.  In colloquial usage for legal purposes,
"Ex pos facto" refers to a law enacted after the fact not being
applicable to an act which was not a crime before the law was
enacted, and which occurred before it was enacted.

A literal translation from my Latin dictionary is:

ex = (prep. + abl.) out of, from within, from / on account of
post = (+ acc.) after, behind
factum = deed, accomplishment, work, act, achievement

== on account of after accomplishment

-- Terry

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