It is Latin (not Spanish!) for The Law of Retaliation, which is to say, The punishment should fit the crime. Its oldest expression is in Exodus 21:24, [Leviticus] 24:20, [Deuteronomy] 19:21, and was given as a principle for the administration if civil law in Israel around [3500] years ago.

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