Law of retaliation
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eye for eye · eye for eye, tooth for tooth · law of retaliation · life for life · the law that bids one be requited
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Stromata
The legal principle of requital in kind, invoked and analyzed as a cause of vindication and instruction.
but it was not the death that in turn laid upon him the deadly counter-blow, but the man himself who was wounded;
The Rights of War and Peace
The principle of reciprocal ill-treatment, here explicitly rejected as a justification for harming ambassadors.
It is frequently made a subject of inquiry, whether the ambassador of a sovereign, who has exercised any act of cruelty or rigour, will be subject to the law of retaliation.
Right of Embassies, an obligation arising out of the law of nations—Where it obtains—Whether Embassies are always to be admitted—Dismissal or punishment of ambassadors engaging in plots not to be considered as a harsh measure, but an act of self-defence—A power to whom no ambassador has been sent, not bound to respect the rights of embassy—An enemy to whom an ambassador is sent bound to respect hi …
Adversus Marcionem
The principle of retaliation in kind, defended as a deterrent that restrains violence rather than licenses it.
— as the definition of retaliation, demanding eye for eye, tooth for tooth, and bruise for bruise.