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Webster's English Dictionary

justice

n. [F., fr. L. justitia, fr. justus just. See Just, a.] ()

1. 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. ()

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.)

2. 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. ()

3. 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. ()

This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. (Shak.)

4. Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice of a claim. ()

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5. A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice. ()

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Bed of justice. See under Bed. -- Chief justice. See in the Vocabulary. -- Justice of the peace (Law), a judicial officer or subordinate magistrate appointed for the conservation of the peace in a specified district, with other incidental powers specified in his commission. In the United States a justice of the peace has jurisdiction to adjudicate certain minor cases, commit offenders, officiate at marriages, etc.; abbreviated JP. ()

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v. t. To administer justice to. (Bacon.)