postliminium

English

Latin postliminium, after + a threshold.

postliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia)

(historical, Roman antiquity) 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[1]
(law) The 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.
- 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law
  Postliminium […] is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war

postliminium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

单词	postliminium
释义	postliminium English Alternative forms postliminy Etymology Latin postliminium, after + a threshold. Noun postliminium (countable and uncountable, plural postliminia) (historical, Roman antiquity) 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[1] (law) The 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. 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law Postliminium […] is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war References 1859, Alexander Mansfield, Law Dictionary postliminium in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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