Lex Succurrit Minoribus

The law assists minors. Jenk. Cent. Cas. 67. LEX TALIONIS (Lat.) The law of retaliation, an example of which is given in the law of Moses, — an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, etc. Amicable retaliation includes those acts of retaliation which correspond to the acts of the other nation under similar circumstances. Jurists and writers on international law the citizens or subjects of another nation. In the United States, no example of such barbarity has ever been witnessed; but prisoners have been kept in close confinement in retaliation for the same conduct towards American prisoners. See Rutherford, Inst. bk. 2, c. 9; Mart. Law Nat. bk. 8, c. 1, § 3, note; 1 Kent, Comm. 93; Wheaton, Int. Law, pt. 4, c. 1, § 1. Vindictive retaliation includes those acts which amount to a war. Lex TERRAE (Lat.) The law of the land. See "Due Process of Law."