The policies underlying ex post facto laws are recognized in most developed legal systems, reflected in the civil law maxim nulla poena sine lege ("no punishment without law"), a principle whose roots are embedded in Roman law.
Don't look to the Qur'an to understand this – look to the French revolution and ultimately to the secularisation of an idea that finds its origins in European Christianity: extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the church there is no salvation), an idea that became transformed with the birth of modern European states into extra stato nulla persona (outside the state there is no legal personhood).
This theology underlay much of the history outlined above, expressed both in the Roman Catholic dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus ("outside the church no salvation") and in the assumption of the 18th- and 19th-century Protestant missionary movements.
In L'Eclisse, there's niente, but not nulla.
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Inside the Zone, Uncle Max discourages Latani from fight training; in the bar, Ash isn't allowed to touch the nulla nulla because she's a woman (according to traditional lore practices); later, Waruu duplicitously questions Belinda's ability to do her job because she is a female; while over at the brothel Mathews is doing his whole pelt-frotting, sexual exploitation thing.
In 1936 and 1940, levies on a judgment for $13.76 were returned nulla bona.
At this point the poet steps in to address them directly: "Fortunati ambo! si quid mea carmina possunt, nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo".
"The Italian Parliament took thirteen years, one month and 22 days to translate into Italian the Latin expression nulla poena sine lege," quipped professor of international law Tullio Scovazzi in the European Environmental Law Review.
Indigenous elder and actor Uncle Jack Charles makes his first appearance as Jimmy in Koen's bar, where he bestows a warrior's club (known as a nulla nulla or waddi) on his nephew.
