† postliminiagen.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
= postliminy n.
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society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > right to return home and resume status
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1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Postliminiage, a return of one who was thought to be dead, and so restored to his house, not by going over the threshold, but by making a hole in the wall; a Law whereby one recovers again that was lost in war, or taken from him by any unlawful means.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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