An Eye for an Eye
Anthony Trollope
Subjects: PR, Domestic fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, Ireland -- Fiction, Revenge -- Fiction, I
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Subjects: PR, Domestic fiction, Man-woman relationships -- Fiction, Mothers and daughters -- Fiction, Ireland -- Fiction, Revenge -- Fiction, I
Downloads: 553
"Only one eye for one eye", also known as "An eye for an eye", or the law of retaliation, is the principle that a person who has injured another person is to be penalized to a similar degree, or in softer interpretations, the victim receives the [estimated] value of the injury in compensation. The intent behind the principle was to restrict compensation to the value of the loss. The principle is sometimes referred using the Latin term lex talionis or the law of talion. The English word talion (from the Latin talio) means a retaliation authorized by law, in which the punishment corresponds in kind and degree to the injury. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).
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