\Post`li*min"i*um\, Postliminy \Post*lim"i*ny\, n.
[L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) 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.

2. (Internat. 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.