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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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