postliminy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: post=lim=i=ny

CIDE DICTIONARY

postliminy, n. [L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold.].

•  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.  Burrill.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  Kent.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

postliminy, n.
1 (in international law) the restoration to their former status of persons and things taken in war.
2 (in Roman law) the right of a banished person or captive to resume civic privileges on return from exile.

Etymology

L postliminium (as POST-, limen liminis threshold)