| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Ex-post facto law | Finance | Latin for "after the fact." Article 1 of the U. S. Constitution prohibits convicting a person for committing an act that was not illegal at the time the act was performed, but which was made illegal by subsequent legislation. (references) | |
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