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Noun
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Any law that makes a prior legal act illegal, or increases the penalty for a prior illegal act.

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legal illegal penalty
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law claw flaw plaw slaw klaw unlaw inlaw pilaw bylaw prelaw by law byrlaw beclaw loblaw in law of law sublaw samlaw declaw
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