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Lex Talionis

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This is a brief cross-reference entry. For the full topic material click the following topic: Retaliation.

Lex talionis is the legal principle of measured retaliation — a penalty matching the harm inflicted, life for life and wound for wound — set within Israel's law to bound vengeance and ensure proportionate justice.

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