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Ex post facto
Definition:
After the fact, ordinarily used in reference to constitutional prohibition on ex post facto laws. For example, a person cannot be punished for conduct committed before a criminal law was enacted
Punitive damages
Definition:
Lawyers regularly employed by the government to represent people accused of crimes who cannot afford to hire their own. The term may also be used to refer to a private firm receiving public money to defend indigent criminal defendants.
Nominal party
Definition:
One, who is joined as a party or defendant merely because the technical rules of pleading require his presence in the record,
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