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Justice

noun

The quality of being just or fair. Synonym: justness.

Judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments.

A public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice. Synonyms: judge, jurist.

The United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870. Synonyms: Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Department.

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"Justice" Quotes from Famous Books

... institutions under the Tudors; and the Star Chamber itself found its main difficulty in the number of suitors which flocked to a court where the king was judge, the law's delays minimised, counsel's fees moderate, and justice rarely denied merely because it might happen to be illegal. England in the sixteenth century put its trust in its princes far more than it did in its parliaments; it invested them with attributes almost Divine. ...

— Henry VIII. • A. F. Pollard

... Hokosa," answered Umsuka, "to leave this to me. Prince, you would not wish the fine that you should pay to be that of any common man. With the girl shall be handed over two hundred head of cattle. More, I will do justice: unless she herself consents, she shall not be put away. Let ...

— The Wizard • H. Rider Haggard

... to be done in the prevention of crime, there is also much to be done in insuring the prompt conviction of offenders. The legal delays and obtrusion of the technicalities which now so often obstruct the administration of justice, hold out a means to the criminal of escaping punishment, work hardship to the poor, who cannot afford to employ the sharpest lawyers, and needlessly retard the clearing of the reputation of the innocent. The overuse of the plea ...

— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake

... dissolute life had certainly confirmed the old baronet in his intentions to trust the lands of Laughton to the lesser risk which property incurs in the hands of a female, if tightly settled on her, than in the more colossal and multiform luxuries of an expensive man; and to do him justice, during the flush of Vernon's riotous career he had shrunk from the thought of confiding the happiness of his niece to so unstable a partner. But of late, whether from his impaired health or his broken fortunes, Vernon's follies ...

— Lucretia, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... these and the like imputations have rather a countenance of gravity than any ground of justice: for experience doth warrant that, both in persons and in times, there hath been a meeting and concurrence in learning and arms, flourishing and excelling in the same men and the same ages. For as 'for men, there cannot be a better nor the hike instance as of that pair, ...

— The Advancement of Learning • Francis Bacon

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