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The right of international law under which when persons or things taken by an enemy in war and come again under the control of their own state they as a general rule regain the rights belonging or relating to them before capture.

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  • O glad and joyful return; "O postliminium gratiosum."
  • Thus postliminium means that the captive returns by the same threshold at which he was lost.
  • A captive who is recovered after a victory over the enemy is deemed to have returned by postliminium.
  • May, 1492, in virtue of the Apostolic commission of Innocent VIII granted on 4 August, 1486, restoring, by right of postliminium, the
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