Pŏst'li-mīn'i-ŭm or Pōst-līm'i-ny, n.

} n. [Lat. postliminium, from post, after, and limen, liminis, a threshold; Fr. postliminie, It. & Sp. postliminio.]

1. (Rom. Antiq.) The return of a person to his own country who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished or taken by an enemy. Burrill.
2. (International Law.) 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.