Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

infra praesidia

[Latin "within the defenses"] Hist. The internationallaw doctrine that someone who captures goods will be considered the owner of the goods if they are brought completely within the captor's power. ( This term is a corruption of the Roman-law term intra praesidia, which referred to goods or persons taken by an enemy during war. Under the principle of postliminium, the captured person's rights or goods were restored to prewar status when the captured person returned. See POSTLIMINIUM.