O glad and joyful return; "O postliminium gratiosum.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love of Books: the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury] Reference

Thus postliminium means that the captive returns by the same threshold at which he was lost.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

A captive who is recovered after a victory over the enemy is deemed to have returned by postliminium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

May, 1492, in virtue of the Apostolic commission of Innocent VIII granted on 4 August, 1486, restoring, by right of postliminium, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference

One made, however, while he was in his own state is valid, if he returns, by the law of postliminium; if he dies in captivity it is valid by the lex Cornelia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

So too, if a son or a grandson is captured by the enemy, the power of his ascendant is provisionally suspended, though he may again be subjected to it by postliminium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

This term is derived from 'limen' and 'post,' which explains why we say that the person who has been captured by the enemy and has come back into our territories has returned by postliminium: for just as the threshold forms the boundary of a house, so the ancients represented the boundaries of the empire as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

2 On the capture of a guardian by the enemy, the same statutes regulated the appointment of a substitute, who continued in office until the return of the captive; for if he returned, he recovered the guardianship by the law of postliminium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

4 Sometimes, however, a family heir succeeds in this way to his parent, even though not in the latter's power at the time of his decease, as where a person returns from captivity after his father's death, this being the effect of the law of postliminium.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

5 Again, capture of the father by the enemy makes him a slave of the latter; but the status of his children is suspended by his right of subsequent restoration by postliminium; for on escape from captivity a man recovers all his former rights, and among them the right of paternal power over his children, the law of postliminium resting on a fiction that the captive has never been absent from the state.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference