postliminium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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
  2. 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.

Word forms

postliminium postliminia postliminy

Etymology

From Latin postlīminium.

Related words

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