Postliminium

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The principle of postliminium, as a part of public international law, is a specific version of the maxim ex injuria jus non oritur, providing for the invalidity of all illegitimate acts that an occupant may have performed on a given territory after its recapture by the legitimate sovereign. Therefore, if the occupant has appropriated and sold public or private property as may not legitimately be appropriated by a military occupant, the original owner may reclaim that property without payment of compensation^[1]. It derives from the jus posiliminii, of Roman law.