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ne law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness. Justice and judgment are the haditation of thy throne. Ps. ixxxix. 11. The king-becoming graces, As justice, verity, temperance, stableness, . . . I have no relish of them. Shak.

Liable to trial in a court of justice. [Obs.] Hayward.

Justiceship. B. Jonson.

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. [Obs.] Johnson.

One who administers justice; a judge. [Obs.] "Some upright justicer." Shak.

The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court. Lord Chief Justice of England, The presiding judge of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice. The highest judicial officer of the realm is the Lord High Chancellor. -- Chief Justice of the United States, the presiding judge of the Supreme Court, a…

The office of chief justice. Jay selected the chief-justiceship as most in accordance with his tastes. The Century.

Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people [the Athenians] resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice. Burke.

Want of justice; injustice. [Obs.] Hales.

blic deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.

to administer the sacrament. [Let zephyrs] administer their tepid, genial airs. Philips. Justice was administered with an exactness and purity not before known. Macaulay.

something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Fully sufficient; abundant; liberal; copious; as, an ample fortune; ample justice.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

n inferior to a superior judge or court for a rehearing or review on account of alleged injustice or illegality in the trial below. We say, the cause was appealed from an inferior court.

the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke. As I return I will fetch off these justices. Shak.

An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.]