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is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. Spenser. But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ough…

g, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.

de in opposition; remonstrance. I would now, on the reclamation both of generosity and of justice, try clemency. Landor.

An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.

The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

ct, either by divine or human laws; uprightness of mind; uprightness; integrity; honesty; justice.

reference. Persuade them to pursue and persevere in virtue, with regard to themselves; in justice and goodness with regard to their neighbors; and piefy toward God. I. Watts.

The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war. The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition. Evelyn.

one state or government upon another for the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice. Kent.

nd and all the chattels thereon, and keep the same in his custody till the arrival of the justices of assize. Blackstone.

bution; of the nature of retribution; involving retribution or repayment; as, retributive justice; retributory comforts.

Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true. That which is conformable to the Supreme Rule is absolutely right, and is called right simply without relation to a special end. Whately.…

To do justice to. [Obs.] Relieve [marginal reading, righten] the opressed. Isa. i. 17.

One who sets right; one who does justice or redresses wrong. Shelton.

Consonant to justice; just; as, a rightful cause.

According to right or justice.

The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.

According to justice; according to the divine will or moral rectitude; uprightly; as, duty rightly performed.

tion; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration. He shall be thrown down the Tarpeian Rock With rigorous hands. Shak. We do not connect the scattered phenomena into their rigorous unity. De Quincey.…

Hence, flavor; taste; savor; smack; seasoning. Though we are justices and doctors and churchmen . . . we have some salt of our youth in us. Shak.