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Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach

Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach (1775-1833), German legal scholar, originator of the famous maxim nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali: "No crime committed, and no punishment meted out, without a violation of penal law as it existed at the time."

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