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justice
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Word definitions for justice in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Justice \Jus"tice\ (j[u^]s"t[i^]s), n. [F., fr. L. justitia, fr. justus just. See Just , a.] The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity ...
Wikipedia
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" Justice " is the eighth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation . The episode first aired in broadcast syndication on November 9, 1987. Directed by James L. Conway , writer John D. F. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-12c., "the exercise of authority in vindication of right by assigning reward or punishment;" also "quality of being fair and just," from Old French justice "justice, legal rights, jurisdiction" (11c.), from Latin iustitia "righteousness, equity," from ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the quality of being just or fair [syn: justness ] [ant: injustice ] the administration of law; the act of determining rights and assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is justice denied" [syn: judicature ] a public official authorized to ...
Usage examples of justice.
Clearly you have aided and abetted a traitor to escape justice, and you will be remanded.
They may opine that I have been an abettor of treason, that I have attempted to circumvent the ends of justice, and that I may have impersonated you in order to render possible your escape.
Foreign intervention, openly invited and industriously instigated by the abettors of the insurrection, became imminent, and has only been prevented by the practice of strict and impartial justice, with the most perfect moderation, in our intercourse with nations.
Congress would be authorized to abridge it, in favour of the great principles of humanity and justice.
It took the position that even if freedom of the press was protected against abridgment by the State, a publication tending to obstruct the administration of justice was punishable, irrespective of its truth.
So to assure the impartial accomplishment of justice is not an abridgment of freedom of speech or freedom of the press, as these phases of liberty have heretofore been conceived even by the stoutest libertarians.
Contenting themselves, for the most part, with the milder chastisements of imprisonment, exile, or slavery in the mines, they left the unhappy victims of their justice some reason to hope, that a prosperous event, the accession, the marriage, or the triumph of an emperor, might speedily restore them, by a general pardon, to their former state.
But if the governmental systems are providing justice and protecting equity, revolutions can be achieved through talk, not violence.
Tyrold did justice to the sincerity of this offer: and the cheerful acquiescence of lessened reluctance, raised her higher in that esteem to which her constant mind invariably looked up, as the summit of her chosen ambition.
I urge you not to trust his Adamantine face and his Rhadamantine justice.
Only Adin, however, had ever been a fugitive from justice: a former Starfleet security officer falsely convicted of treason and murder.
He was brought to justice, and sentenced to death, and his property was adjudged to his widow, who shortly after married the page who had saved her life.
Justice Holmes to express a technical legal doctrine or to convey a formula for adjudicating cases.
Two bills founded upon these propositions were introduced, and both sides of the house admitting the justice of the measures seemed to agree in the propriety of adopting them.
Justice Stone seems to be engaged in an endeavor to erect this into an almost exclusive test of the validity, or invalidity of State taxation affecting interstate commerce.