单词 | postliminium |
释义 | postliminiumn. Law. = postliminy n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > right to return home and resume status postliminium1638 postliminy1658 postliminiage1661 1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. iii. §28. 141 The Church..afterwards, as it were by the law of Postliminium, hath restored their Authority and Canonicalnesse unto them. 1669 I. Basire Let. 22 May in J. Evelyn Diary & Corr. (1852) III. 219 At my postliminium, all my hope and ambition was to exchange a shilling for three groats. 1709 M. Tindal Four Disc. on Following Subj. i. xiv. 111 In the Civil Wars of the Romans, there was not, as in foreign Wars, any use of the Postliminium; nor did they triumph after Victory. 1809 Edinb. Rev. 13 440 The amnestied emigrants..enjoy..but little of the benefits of postliminium. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. Comm. 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. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1373/1 The term postliminium is also said to apply to those cases where captured property has come into the hands of neutrals, and is reclaimed by the belligerent from whom it was taken. 2000 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 130 156 An effect capable of being assimilated with a Roman captive's right of postliminium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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