postliminium
n.
right to reclaim citizenship (of a person returning to his native country)
Postliminium
The right of postliminium, as a part of
international law, allows the original owner of property captured by an enemy during war to reclaim that property in the event of its recapture by friendly forces. It derives from the jus posiliminii, of
Roman law. This acts as an exception to the general rule that property captured in war belongs to the captor, and serves to mitigate the calamities of war.
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postliminium (m)
n.
postliminium, right to reclaim citizenship (of a person returning to his native country)
Postliminium
(n.)
Alt. of Postliminy
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Postliminium
That right in virtue of which persons and things taken by the enemy are restored to their former state, when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belong.
The jus posiliminii was a fiction of the Roman law.
It is a right recognized by the law of nations, and contributes essentially to mitigate the, calamities of war. When, therefore, property taken by the enemy is either recaptured or rescued from him, by the fellow subjects or allies of the original owner, it does not become the property of the recaptor or rescuer, as if it had been a new prize, but it is restored to the original owner by right of postliminy, upon certain terms.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
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