Meaning of postliminium | Babel Free

Definitions

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
   Roman, countable, historical, uncountable
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.
   countable, uncountable

Examples

“Postliminium […]is a right recognized by the law of nations , and contributes essentially to mitigate the calamities of war”

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