lex talionis

He alone enjoys the lex talionis, and glories in carrying it into execution.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

According to the very lex talionis, he has had what he deserves.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

One is immediately struck, for example, by the similarity in the application of the lex talionis: Ham.

From The Christian View of the Old Testament by Eiselen, Frederick Carl

To the Hindu, on the other hand, the lex talionis is a law of life still enforced.

From India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by Jones, John P. (John Peter)

The lex talionis was the custom of the hour.

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne