Postliminy

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Postliminium \Post`li*min"i*um\, Postliminy \Post*lim"i*ny\, n.
     [L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold.]
     1. (Rom. Antiq.) 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. --Burrill.


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     2. (Internat. Law) 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. --Kent.
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