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‖ postliminium|pəʊstlɪˈmɪnɪəm| [L. postlīminium a return ‘behind one's threshold’, f. post, post- B. 2 + līmen, -in- threshold.] In Roman Law, The right to return home and resume one's former privileges: = postliminy.
[1611J. Chamberlain in Crt. & Times Jas. I (1848) I. 146 Being..called in question, post-liminio [abl. = ‘by postliminium’], for the powder treason. ]1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. iii. §28. 141 The Church..afterwards, as it were by the law of Postliminium, hath restored their Authority and Canonicalnesse unto them. 1669in Evelyn's Corr. (1852) III. 219 At my postliminium, all my hope and ambition was to exchange a shilling for three groats. 1809Edin. Rev. XIII. 440 The amnestied emigrants..enjoy..but little of the benefits of postliminium. 1875Poste Gaius i. Comm. (ed. 2) 110 Postliminium is the recovery of rights by a person returned from captivity, or the recovery of rights over a person or thing recovered from hostile possession. |