EXECUTIVE  POWER  —

of  executive  department,  §  4
EXECUTORS  —

construction  of  remedial  statute  relating  to  new  appointment  of,  on

change  of  residence,  §  419.
act  remedial  providing  for  execution  of  powers  of  will  by  succession  of,
§  436.
.EXEMPTIONS  —

in  penal  statutes  construed  hberally  for  the  accused,  §  227.
in  favor  of  debtors  hberally  construed,  §§  223,  420-423.
from  toUs  on  turnpikes  UberaUy  construed  in  favor  of  agriculture,
§  420.
yoke  of  oxen  not  necessarily  yoke  broken  to  work,  §  420.
from  all  taxation  may  by  evident  intention  in  context  be  only  from
taxation  for  revenue,  §  243.
confined  to  taxes  mentioned  in  the  act,  §  246.
what  included  in  one-horse  or  ox-cart,  §  248.
statutes  exempting  from  taxes  or  other  common  burden  strictly  con-
strued, §  364.
of  property  from  execution,  how  construed,  §§  372,  422.
what  change  admissible  as  to  existing  debts  in  favor  of  debtors,  §§  477,
478.
INDEX.  651

'EX  POST  FACTO  LAWS  —

effect  of  changing  penalty  by  adding  milder  alternative,  §  143.
prohibited  by  constitution,  §§  206,  403.
definition  of,  §  405.
application  of  prohibition  in  federal  constitution,  §§  465-470.
prohibition  of,  ai)pUes  only  to  ci-iminal  laws,  §  465.
test  of  application,  §g  405-407.
requiring  test  oath  as  to  past  transactions,  §  467.
present  acts,  §  408.
enlarging  class  of  witnesses,  §  468.
taking  away  teclinical  objections,  §  469.
changing  place  of  trial,  §  409.
providing  new  tribunal,  §  409.
new  treaties  for  surrender  of  fugitives,  §  469.
giving  additional  challenges  to  peofjle,  §  469.
reducing  defendants'  challenges,  §  469.
modifying  grounds  of  challenge  for  cause,  §  469.
authorizing  amendments  of  indictments,  §  469.
regulating  the  framing  of  indictments  to  facihtate  procedure,  §  469.
requiring  defense  of  insanity  to  be  pleaded,  §  469.
