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<hw>Just</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Joust</er>.]</ety> <def>To joust.</def>

<i>Fairfax.</i>

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<hw>Just</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A joust.</def>

<i>Dryden.</i>

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<hw>Jus"tice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>justitia</ets>, fr. <ets>justus</ets> just. See <er>Just</er>, <tt>a.</tt>]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote><b>Justice</b> and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. <i> Ps. ixxxix. 11.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish of them. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit; honesty; fidelity; impartiality; <as>as, the <ex>justice</ex> of a description or of a judgment; historical <ex>justice</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>This even-handed <b>justice</b> Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. <i> Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; <as>as, the <ex>justice</ex> of a claim</as>.</def>

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<p><b>5.</b> <def>A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.</def>

<note>&hand; 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.</note>

<cs><col>Bed of justice</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bed</er>.</cd> -- <col>Chief justice</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Justice of the peace</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>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, etc.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- Equity; law; right; rectitude; honesty; integrity; uprightness; fairness; impartiality.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Justice</er>, <er>Equity</er>, <er>Law</er>. <i>Justice</i> and <i>equity</i> are the same; but human laws, though designed to secure justice, are of necessity imperfect, and hence what is strictly <i>legal</i> is at times far from being <i>equitable</i> or <i>just</i>. Here a court of <i>equity</i> comes in to redress the grievances. It does so, as distinguished from courts of <i>law</i>; and as the latter are often styled courts of <i>justice</i>, some have fancied that there is in this case a conflict between <i>justice</i> and <i>equity</i>. The real conflict is against the <i>working</i> of the <i>law</i>; this a court of <i>equity</i> brings into accordance with the claims of <i>justice</i>. It would be an unfortunate use of language which should lead any one to imagine he might have <i>justice</i> on his side while practicing iniquity (<i>inequity</i>).

<er>Justice</er>, <er>Rectitude</er>. <i>Rectitude</i>, 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. <i>Justice</i> refers more especially to the carrying out of law, and has been considered by moralists as of three kinds: (1) <i>Commutative</i> justice, which gives every man his own property, including things pledged by promise. (2) <i>Distributive</i> justice, which gives every man his exact deserts. (3) <i>General</i> justice, which carries out all the <i>ends</i> 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.</usage>

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<hw>Jus"tice</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To administer justice to.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

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<hw>Jus"tice*a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Liable to trial in a court of justice.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Hayward.</i>

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