Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
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Postliminium
n. [fr. Latin post "after" + limen "threshold"] 1. Roman & civil law. The doctrine that a restoration of a person's lost rights or status relates back to the time of the original loss or deprivation, esp. in regard to the restoration of the status of a prisoner of war. "[A] person who is taken captive and comes back within the limits of the Empire is correctly described as returning by postliminium. By 'limen' (threshold) we mean the frontier of a house, and the old lawyers applied the word to the frontier of the Roman State; so that the word postliminium conveys the idea of recrossing the frontier. If a prisoner is recovered from a beaten foe he is deemed to have come back by postliminium." R.W. Lee, The Elements of Roman Law 85-86 (4th ed. 1956). 2. Int'l law. The act of invalidating all an occupying force's illegal acts, and the postoccupation revival of all illegitimately modified legal relations to their former condition, esp. the restoration of property to its rightful owner. - Also termed postliminy.
Postliminium fingit eum qui captus est semper in civitate fuisse
Postliminy (restoration of rights) imagines that a person who has been captured has never left the state.( A person captured by the enemy, who later returns, is restored to all his former rights. Just. Inst. 1.12.5.