lex talionis

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There are instances where Talmudic law is tenderer than the Biblical; for example, the lex talionis is softened into an equivalent.

From Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala by Various

In the criminal law the ruling principle was the lex talionis.

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

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

And there is something just in this lex talionis.

From International Weekly Miscellany — Volume 1, No. 2, July 8, 1850 by Various

It was an antiquated system which sought to inflict punishment for every mortal thing—it was the lex talionis of the Old Testament, an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

From Growth of the Soil by Hamsun, Knut