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om their success, are presumed . . . to have cultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.

Suppression of such facts and circumstances as in justice ought to be made known. Wharton.

A celebrated prison, attached to the Palais de Justice in Paris.

Forbearing to see; designedly inattentive; as, connivent justice. [R.] Milton.

An officer who has charge of preserving the public peace, as a justice or sheriff.

A civil court of justice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

f a consoling or comforting nature. The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke.

Disobedience of the rules, orders, or process of a court of justice, or of rules or orders of a legislative body; disorderly, contemptuous, or insolent language or behavior in presence of a court, tending to disturb its proceedings, or impair the respect due to its authority.

eyed from one person to another. [He] found the conveyances in law to be so firm, that in justice he must decree the land to the earl. Clarendon.

To make right; to bring to the standard of truth, justice, or propriety; to rectify; as, to correct manners or principles. This is a defect in the first make of same men's minds which can scarce ever be corrected afterwards. T. Burnet.

, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; -- called also a shire. See Shire. Every county, every town, every family, was in agitation. Macaulay.

The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.

Any court of justice.

nt. [Obs.] Custos rotulorum (r Etym: [LL., keeper of the rolls] (Eng. Law), the principal justice of the peace in a county, who is also keeper of the rolls and records of the sessions of the peace.

A hindoo hall of justice. Malcom.

A person employed by officers of justice, or parties exposed to injury, to induce a suspected person to commit an offense under circumstances that will lead to his detection.

To discharge. [Obs.] As soon as the party . . . before our justices shall be depeached. Hakluyt.

To put under oath. [Obs.] Depose him in the justice of his cause. Shak.

t and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint. We shall see Justice design the victor's chivalry. Shak. Meet me to-morrow where the master And this fraternity shall design. Beau. & Fl.

A court of justice; judgment hall. [R.] J. S. Mill.