Note 41 — Chapter XV · 39 On Treaties and on Engagements made by Delegates, Exceeding their Power.
A. C. (Archibald Colin) Campbell translation
"The right of postliminium is that, in virtue of which, persons and things taken by the enemy are restored to their former state, on coming again into the power of the nation to which they belonged." Vattel, b. iii. ch. xiv. sect. 204.