Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 11:33:41 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Unhappy Adobe Customer <bsd_appliance@yahoo.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSSCA? Message-ID: <20011010113341.G57921@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3BC410E4.ACF8074B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:12:04AM -0700 References: <20011008193423.77229.qmail@web11901.mail.yahoo.com> <3BC34784.4D56D9DF@mindspring.com> <xzplmikcop2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3BC404A6.89276494@mindspring.com> <xzphet7dgra.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3BC410E4.ACF8074B@mindspring.com>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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