Ex Post Facto The legal term ex post facto ("after the fact") generally refers to laws or other mandates

that are passed to restrict behavior that was, when practiced, entirely legal. Prospective Law Effective in the future. Newly enacted laws and constitutional decisions are almost always applied prospectively. Retroactive Law Law that is applicable to the past. Intrinsic Belonging to a thing by its very nature. Procedural law A body of rules prescribing the manner, form, and order in which matters are dealt with and enforced. Substantive law The branch of law which creates, defines and regulates people's rights, duties, powers and liabilites; the actual rules and principles administered by the court including legislative and common law principles. Remedial Law One which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. Lex Prospicit, Non Respicit Laws are construed as having only prospective operation. Dura Lex, Sed Lex What the Law grants, the courts cannot deny. Resort to Equity Justice outside legality Nullum Crimen, Nulla Sine Lege There is no crime when there is no Law punishing it. Doctrine of Processual Presumption Our courts will presume that the foreign law is the same as our domestic or internal law when it is not properly pleaded and proved. Interpretare et Concorde Lequibus est optimus Interpretendi Every statute must be interpreted and brought into accord with other laws. Doctrine of Stare Decisis When the court has laid down a principle of law as applicable to a certain facts, it will adhere to that and apply it on future cases where the facts are substantially the same. Lex Rei Sitae Real and personal properties are subject to the laws of the country where they are situated.

Renvoi Doctrine Literally means Referring Back. When there is a conflict between a countrys Internal and foreign laws. Lex Loci Celebracionis Article 17 first sentence. Lex Contractus Personal Law of the contract. Lex Loci Voluntatis The Law of the place where the parties executed the contract. Lex Loci Intentionis The law of the place expressed or implied by the parties.