(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) 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.
(a.) Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim.
(a.) A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice.
(v. t.) To administer justice to.
Example Sentences:
(1) The measure destroyed the Justice Department’s plans to prosecute whatever Guantánamo detainees it could in federal courts.
(2) Why bother to put the investigators, prosecutors, judge, jury and me through this if one person can set justice aside, with the swipe of a pen.
(3) The judge, Mr Justice John Royce, told George she was "cold" and "calculating", as further disturbing details of her relationship with the co-accused, Colin Blanchard and Angela Allen, emerged.
(4) The denial of justice to victims of British torture, some of which Britain admits, is set to continue.
(5) Existing mental health and criminal justice systems provide social control for some of these dangerous individuals, but may be inadequate to deal with those mentally disordered offenders who were not found not guilty by reason of insanity (NGI).
(6) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(7) If it is proven he did, he must be brought to justice, said the politician.
(8) "At the moment there are about 1,600 criminal justice firms, and they all have a contract with the lord chancellor.
(9) So is the mock courtroom promising “justice and fairness”.
(10) We need to be confident that the criminal justice system takes child abuse seriously.
(11) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
(12) The court hearing – in a case of the kind likely to be heard in secret if the government's justice and security bill is passed – was requested by the law firm Leigh Day and the legal charity Reprieve, acting for Serdar Mohammed, tortured by the Afghan security services after being transferred to their custody by UK forces.
(13) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
(14) Hebrew for voice of justice, Kol Tzedek was described in publicity at the time as "an outreach program aimed at helping sex-crime victims in Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish Communities report abuse".
(15) The exercise comes at a sensitive time for Poland’s military, following the sacking or forced retirement of a quarter of the country’s generals since the nationalist Law and Justice government came to power in October last year.
(16) "I don't think I will be able to rest until they are all brought to justice," he said.
(17) But under Comey’s FBI, the agency has continued to disregard the justice department’s legal opinion, and to this day, demands tech companies hand it all sorts of data under due-process free National Security Letters.
(18) The bottom line is that access to abortion is a matter of social justice.
(19) The Morgan family said the terms of reference for the inquiry panel included: • Police involvement in the murder • The role played by police corruption in protecting those responsible for the murder from being brought to justice and the failure to confront that corruption • The incidence of connections between private investigators, police officers and journalists at the News of the World and other parts of the media and corruption involved in the linkages between them.
(20) The law and justice minister, Anisul Huq, said the 73-year-old leader was hanged after he refused to seek mercy from the country’s president.
Justness
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.
Example Sentences:
(1) Yes, they brought genius and organisational skills, for which they justly receive kudos.
(2) The above principle, of which my 24-carat Tory pupil-master was so justly proud, is now hanging by a thread, one which the Ministry of Justice's plans will finally sever.
(3) Regretting the necessity of going into closed session, Neuberger said the Treasury had argued that without reading the secret judgment of Mr Justice Mitting [in a lower court] "we cannot be wholly confident of disposing of the bank's appeal justly without considering the closed judgment".
(4) They are victims of what John Prescott and Yvette Cooper called Pathfinder slum clearance , a title justly echoing Bomber Harris's campaign to smash German cities .
(5) Hastings, Sheffield and their allies rely on the work of Fritz Fischer, a German historian who in 1961 published a justly celebrated book, based on painstaking research in the German archives, about Germany's aims in the first world war .
(6) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
(7) The legislature was just taking too long to act morally and justly.
(8) If the mot juste was always a priority – "I suppose we all have our foibles.
(9) Even a hacked-back state ought to deal with the individual justly.
(10) They are no longer proudly addressing the needs of those with learning disorders in their own community, and paid justly for the skills they have acquired and the love they expend.
(11) Jon Savage Jon Savage is a cultural commentator whose books include England's Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock and Teenage: The Creation of Youth 1875-1945 20 March 1966: The Who signal the start of swinging london The Who Photograph: Observer Colin Jones's justly famous photograph captures the Who at a moment of maximum combustibility: "I'd never met a band that were so antagonistic towards each other," he later recalled.
(12) The fighter said the US-led coalition to fight the militant group was a sure sign of the justness of their cause.
(13) Separately, Carsten Juste, the editor of the Jyllands-Posten, issued his own apology.
(14) However, this type of surgery has always been dreaded and the loss of the voice has been the consequence most justly feared by patients and doctors alike.
(15) The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Friday 29 May 2009 Near homophone corner: referring to the leader comment below, a reader justly asks, "Calling Miliband and Johnson Messers may well have been an opinion but could you have meant Messrs?".
(16) The NHS has a lot that it can justly be proud about.
(17) In the final scene of the latter, Charles, the unfaithful husband (Michel Bouquet), uses the word "juste" 17 times in different ways.
(18) Justly or unjustly - and inevitably this is not a black and white issue - he is a broken leader.
(19) He notes that moral obligations to a particular patient may at times be superseded by the social obligation to allocate health care resources justly; to pursue research to benefit future patients; and to engage in preventive medicine to benefit potential patients.
(20) Carsten Juste said: "The 12 cartoons ... were not intended to be offensive, nor were they at variance with Danish law, but they have indisputably offended many Muslims, for which we apologise."