postliminium

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noun

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy

OriginLatin postlīminium →
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Meanings

nounpostliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia)

plural postliminia · alternative postliminy

  1. RomancountablehistoricaluncountableThe return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy
  2. countableuncountablelawThe right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged.

    Postliminium […]is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war

    1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law

Origin

  1. Latinpostlīminium
  2. Englishpostliminium

From Latin postlīminium.

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Chicago

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