lex talionis

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"Perhaps she has something to complain of; but if she has any conscience at all, she ought to recognize the lex talionis."

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)

But lex talionis, as the lawyers call it—pay ’em back in their own coin.

From The Kopje Garrison A Story of the Boer War by Boucher, W.

"Sár," here the Koranic word for carrying out the venerable and undying lex talionis the original basis of all criminal jurisprudence.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Our heroine, being at once ardent and philosophical, put the lex talionis into force by falling in love with one of her mother's lodgers, a sprig of the legal profession.

From At Last by Harland, Marion

It is state-law; alike self-help, blood-feud, marriage by capture, are absent; though family solidarity, district responsibility, ordeal, the lex talionis, are primitive features that remain.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various