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单词 postliminy
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postliminyn.

Brit. /ˌpəʊs(t)ˈlɪmᵻni/, U.S. /ˌpoʊs(t)ˈlɪmᵻni/
Forms: 1600s postliminie, 1800s– postliminy.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin postliminium.
Etymology: < classical Latin postliminium postliminium n.; compare -y suffix4. Compare earlier postliminium n.
Law.
Roman Law. The right of a banished person or captive to resume civic privileges and former rights on return from exile (historical in later use). Hence in International Law: the restoration to their former status of persons and things taken in war.
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society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > [noun] > right to return home and resume status
postliminium1638
postliminy1658
postliminiage1661
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Postliminie, the return of one, who was thought to be dead. [1678 adds, also a return from Exile or Captivity.]
1826 J. Kent Comm. Amer. Law I. v. 103 Movables are not entitled, by the strict rules of the laws of nations, to the full benefit of postliminy, unless [etc.].
1860 T. D. Woolsey Introd. Internat. Law §143. 331 As to limit of place modern postliminy takes effect only within the territory of the captor or his ally.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. Comm. 223 If he returned from captivity his will reacquired validity by the operation of postliminy.
1951 Federal Suppl. (U.S.) (Lexis) 99 602 Leading English and French writers before 1914 here opposed to the application of postliminy to permitted acts of occupants.
1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1373/1 The right of postliminy..is that by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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