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postliminy|pəʊstˈlɪmɪnɪ|
[Anglicized form of postliminium.]
In Rom. Law, The right of any person who had been banished or taken captive, to assume his former civic privileges on his return home. Hence, in Internat. Law, The restoration to their former state of persons and things taken in war, when they come again into the power of the nation to which they belonged.
1658Phillips, Postliminie, the return of one, who was thought to be dead. [ed. 1678 adds, also a return from Exile or Captivity.] 1860Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law §143. 331 As to limit of place modern postliminy takes effect only within the territory of the captor or his ally. 1861J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law (1873) I. v. 109 Movables are not entitled, by strict rules of the laws of nations, to the full benefit of postliminy, unless [etc.]. 1875Poste Gaius ii. Comm. (ed. 2) 223 If he returned from captivity his will reacquired validity by the operation of postliminy. |