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noun
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
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Roman, countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
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History
From Latin postlīminium.
