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4 words match “POSTFACT”

POSTFACT n. 2 definitions
A fact that occurs after another. "Confirmed upon the postfact." Fuller.
POSTFACTUM n.
Same as Postfact.
EX POST FACTO; EX POSTFACTO n.
From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective.
EXPOST FACTO; EXPOSTFACTO n.
From or by an after act, or thing done afterward; in consequence of a subsequent act; retrospective. Ex post facto law, a law which operates by after enactment. The phrase is popularly applied to any law, civil or criminal, which is enacted with a retrospective effect, and with intention to produce that effect; but in…