9 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Justice \Jus"tice\ (j[u^]s"t[i^]s), noun [F., fr. L. justitia, fr.
justus just. See {Just}, adjective]
1. The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of
righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict
performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to
human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with
each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.
Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy
throne. --Ps. ixxxix.
11.
The king-becoming graces,
As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . .
I have no relish of them. --Shak.
2. Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and
in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit
or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; as, the
justice of a description or of a judgment; historical
justice.
3. The rendering to every one his due or right; just
treatment; requital of desert; merited reward or
punishment; that which is due to one's conduct or motives.
This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. --Shak.
4. Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice
of a claim.
5. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and
decide controversies and administer justice.
Note: This title is given to the judges of the common law
courts in England and in the United States, and extends
to judicial officers and magistrates of every grade.
{Bed of justice}. See under {Bed}.
{Chief justice}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Justice of the peace} (Law), a judicial officer or
subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of
the peace in a specified district, with other incidental
powers specified in his commission. In the United States a
justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate
certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at
marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP.
Syn: Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity;
uprightness; fairness; impartiality.
Usage: {Justice}, {Equity}, {Law}. Justice and equity are the
same; but human laws, though designed to secure
justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is
strictly legal is at times far from being equitable or
just. Here a court of equity comes in to redress the
grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts
of law; and as the latter are often styled courts of
justice, some have fancied that there is in this case
a conflict between justice and equity. The real
conflict is against the working of the law; this a
court of equity brings into accordance with the claims
of justice. It would be an unfortunate use of language
which should lead any one to imagine he might have
justice on his side while practicing iniquity
(inequity). {Justice}, {Rectitude}. Rectitude, in its
widest sense, is one of the most comprehensive words
in our language, denoting absolute conformity to the
rule of right in principle and practice. Justice
refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and
has been considered by moralists as of three kinds:
(1) Commutative justice, which gives every man his own
property, including things pledged by promise. (2)
Distributive justice, which gives every man his exact
deserts. (3) General justice, which carries out all
the ends of law, though not in every case through the
precise channels of commutative or distributive
justice; as we see often done by a parent or a ruler
in his dealings with those who are subject to his
control.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Justice \Jus"tice\, verb (used with an object)
To administer justice to. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
justice
noun
1: the quality of being just or fair [syn: {justness}] [ant: {injustice}]
2: the administration of law; the act of determining rights and
assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is
justice denied" [syn: {judicature}]
3: a public official authorized to decide questions bought
before a court of justice [syn: {judge}, {jurist}, {magistrate}]
4: the United States federal department responsible for
enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all
civil rights legislation); created in 1870 [syn: {Department
of Justice}, {Justice Department}, {DoJ}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "justice":
Astraea, Dike, JP, Jupiter Fidius, Justice, Justitia, Minos,
Nemesis, Rhadamanthus, Themis, actionability, applicability,
arbiter, arbitrator, assured probity, balance, beak, bencher,
blamelessness, blindfolded Justice, cardinal virtues, character,
charity, cleanness, coequality, coextension,
constitutional validity, constitutionalism, constitutionality,
correspondence, court, critic, decency, detention, due process,
dueness, entitledness, entitlement, equality, equation,
equilibrium, equipoise, equipollence, equiponderance,
equitableness, equity, equivalence, equivalency, erectness,
estimableness, evenness, expectation, fair play, fair-mindedness,
fairness, faith, fortitude, good character, goodness, high ideals,
high principles, high-mindedness, his honor, his lordship,
his worship, honesty, honor, honorableness, hope, identity,
immaculacy, impartiality, imprisonment, incarceration, indicator,
integrity, irreproachability, irreproachableness, judge, judger,
judgment, judicatory, judicature, judicial process, judiciary,
judiciousness, jurisdiction, justiciability,
justifiable expectation, justness, law, lawfulness, legal form,
legal process, legalism, legality, legitimacy, legitimateness,
levelness, licitness, likeness, love, magistrate, meritedness,
moderator, moral excellence, moral strength, morality,
natural virtues, neutrality, nobility, objectiveness, objectivity,
par, parallelism, parity, poise, principles, prison, probity,
proportion, prudence, punishment, pureness, purity, rectitude,
referee, reputability, respectability, right, righteousness,
rightfulness, scope, stainlessness, supernatural virtues, symmetry,
temperance, the courts, the law, theological virtues, umpire,
unimpeachability, unimpeachableness, unspottedness, uprightness,
upstandingness, validity, virtue, virtuousness, worthiness
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
JUSTICE, noun A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition
the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes
and personal service.
K
K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced
away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation
inhabiting the peninsula of Smero. In their tongue it was called
_Klatch_, which means "destroyed." The form of the letter was
originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker
explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the
destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, _circa_
730 B.C. This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its
portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other
remaining intact. As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to
have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great
antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say
touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory.
It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional
mnemonic, or if the name was always _Klatch_ and the destruction one
of nature's pums. As each theory seems probable enough, I see no
objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on
that side of the question.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Justice, IL (village, FIPS 38830)
Location: 41.74640 N, 87.83552 W
Population (1990): 11137 (4390 housing units)
Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 60458
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Justice, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 12193
Housing Units (2000): 4772
Land area (2000): 2.911751 sq. miles (7.541401 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.041734 sq. miles (0.108091 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.953485 sq. miles (7.649492 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38830
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 41.746382 N, 87.834402 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 60458
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Justice, IL
Justice
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Justice, OK -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 1311
Housing Units (2000): 480
Land area (2000): 8.957846 sq. miles (23.200714 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.957846 sq. miles (23.200714 sq. km)
FIPS code: 38475
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.283225 N, 95.575093 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Justice, OK
Justice
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Justice
is rendering to every one that which is his due. It has been
distinguished from equity in this respect, that while justice
means merely the doing what positive law demands, equity means
the doing of what is fair and right in every separate case.
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