Talion

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions | 1997 | 209 words | Copyright

Talion (i.e. lex talionis, ‘law of retaliation’). A punishment which is equivalent to the offence. Most talions were abolished in Talmudic times, and monetary payments were substituted (BK 8. 1).

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