Lex Talionis Definition

tālēōnis, talēōnis
noun
Retribution in kind.
Webster's New World

Law of equivalent retaliation.

Wiktionary

Origin of Lex Talionis

  • From Latin lex + talionis genitive singular of tālio (“retaliation"), from tālis (“of such kind")

    From Wiktionary

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