Usually means: Law of retaliation; eye-for-eye.
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  1. lex talionis: Merriam-Webster
  2. lex talionis: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lex talionis: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lex talionis: Wiktionary
  5. lex talionis: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. lex talionis: Dictionary.com
  7. lex talionis: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. Lex Talionis (Sol Invictus album), Lex Talionis, Lex talionis (disambiguation), Lex talionis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. lex talionis: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Lex Talionis: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lex talionis: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Lex talionis: Legal dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lex talionis: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (lex talionis)

noun:  law of equivalent retaliation.

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