law of talion

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• talion — index punishment, reprisal Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• TALION — TALION, a concept of punishment whereby the prescribed penalty is identical with, or equivalent to, the offense. Identical (or true ) talions are death for homicide ( Whosoever sheddeth man s blood, by man shall his blood be shed : Gen. 9:6),… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• talion — /tal ee euhn/, n. See lex talionis. [1375 1425; < L talion (s. of talio) exaction of compensation in kind; r. late ME talioun < AF < L, as above] * * * ▪ law Latin  lex talionis        principle developed in early Babylonian law and present in… …   Universalium

• talion — /ˈtæljən/ (say talyuhn) noun retaliation as authorised by law, especially when the punishment inflicted corresponds in kind and degree to the injury, as eye for eye (Leviticus 24:20). {Middle English, from Latin tālio} …  

• Hebraic law — Law codes of ancient Israel found in the Jewish Scripture (Old Testament). Three separate codes are usually distinguished: the Book of the Covenant, the Deuteronomic Code, and the Priestly Code. The Book of the Covenant is found in Exodus 20–23… …   Universalium

• Roman law — the system of jurisprudence elaborated by the ancient Romans, a strong and varied influence on the legal systems of many countries. [1650 60] * * * Law of the Roman Republic and Empire. Roman law has influenced the development of law in most of… …   Universalium

• reprisal — re·pri·sal /ri prī zəl/ n [Anglo French reprisaile reprisaille, from Middle French, from Old Italian ripresaglia, from ripreso, past participle of riprendere to take back, from ri back + prendere to take, from Latin prehendere] 1 a: the act or… …   Law dictionary

• punishment — pun·ish·ment n 1: the act of punishing 2: a penalty (as a fine or imprisonment) inflicted on an offender through the judicial and esp. criminal process see also cruel and unusual punishment Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …   Law dictionary

• ASSAULT — ASSAULT, the infliction of any degree of violence on the body of another person, whether injury results or not. The biblical injunction, he may be given up to 40 lashes but not more (Deut. 25:3), which applies to flogging by way of punishment,… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• lex talionis — /leks tal ee oh nis/ the principle or law of retaliation that a punishment inflicted should correspond in degree and kind to the offense of the wrongdoer, as an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth; retributive justice. Also called talion. [1590… …   Universalium

• Mishpatim — (מִּשְׁפָּטִים Hebrew for “laws,” the second word of the parshah) is the eighteenth weekly Torah portion (parshah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the book of Exodus. It constitutes Exodus 21:1–24:18. Jews in the… …   Wikipedia