Latin

[QUAVIET]

Sirs, I am going to ask a question which has been bugging me for a long time. Since I have seen Latin used on this post and I could not find a Lawyer's forum, I thought I would give it a try. What is "Expo Facto Law"? I have found that it means "after the fact". This definition is incomplete. The reason I ask goes back 32 years and I was just curious. I thought that expo meant big and facto meant fact. Thanks in advance, Bob

 

[busbar]

Search on the term ex post facto.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/lexicon/ex_post_facto.htm

 

[ScottyUK]

Another possibility is:

"Ipso facto" translating as "By the fact itself" which occurs quite frequently in contractual verbiage.



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[IRstuff]

If you do a websearch on "ex post facto law" you'll get more than enough information:

http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web/%22ex+post+facto+law%22

TTFN

 

[QUAVIET]

Thanks so much for the info. Either ex post or ipso would apply. Ex post a little more than ipso. We were in a contract where the rules changed all the time. Thanks again, Bob