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Terry Lambert said on Oct 10, 2001 at 02:12:04:
> 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

No.  (And where does German come into this?)

> 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
  ^^^^

Exactly.  You left out the t.

R

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