Rightful; warranted or sanctioned by law; that which can be shown to be sustained by law; as justifiable homicide. See Homicide
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A maintaining or showing a sufficient reason in court why the defeudant did what he is called upon to an-swer, particularly in an action of libel. A defense of justification is a defense showing the libel to be true, or in an action of assault showing the violence to have been necessary. See Steph. Pl. 184
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The chief crirn-inal court of Scotland, consisting of five lords of session, added to the justice general and justice clerk; of whom the Justice general, and, in his absence, the jnstice clerk, is presldent. This court has a jurisdiction over all crimes, and over the whole of Scotland. Bell
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US. Judicature; prerogative. Jnstitia est duplex, vis., severe pn-niens ot vero prseveniens. 3 Inst. Epil
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In English law. Justices or judges who usnally resided In westminister. They were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 293
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An old name for a judge or justice. The word is formed on the aual-ogy of the Latin “justiciarius” and French “justicier”
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In old English law. A jndge or justice, one of several persons learned in the law, who sat in the aula regis, and formed a kind of court of appeal in cases of difficulty
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In Eng-lish law. Justices in eyre, who formerly went from county to county to administer justice. They were so called to distinguish them from justices residing at westminister, who were called “justicii residentes” Oo. Lltt. 293
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In Amer-iean law. A judicial officer of inferior rank holding a court not of record, and having (usually) civil jurisdiction of a limited na-ture, for the trial of minor cases, to an extent prescribed by statute, and for the conservation of the peace aud tlie preliminary hearing of criminal complaints and the commitment of offenders. See Weuzler v. Peo-ple, 58 N. Y. 530; Com. v. Frank. 21 Pa. Co. CL R. 120; weikel v. Cate, 58 Md. 110
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An old general term for all thingB appertalnlng to justice
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In old English law. A certain measure of liquor, being as much as was sufficient to drink at once. Mon. Angl. t 1, c. 149
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In the civil law. A Just cause; a lawful ground; a legal trans-action of some kind. Mackeld. Rom. Law, S 283
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The right to use proper-ty without destroying its substance. It is employed in contradistinction to the jusr abutendi. 3 Toullier, no. 86
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in Roman law. A name applied to the Roman law of wills, i in the time of Justinian, on account of its’ threefold derivation, viz., from the prae-; torlan edict, from the civil law, and from the imperial constitutions. Maine, Anc. Law, 207
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In Roman . law. A right or privilege allowed to the parent of three or more children. 2 Kent,’ Comm. 85; 2 Bl. Comm. 247. These prlvl-’ leges were an exemption from the trouble of. guardianship, priority in bearing oflices, and a treble proportion of corn. Adams, Rom.: Ant (Am. Ed.) 227
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Strict law; law Interpreted without any modification, and in its utmost rigor
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The right of a third party. A teuant, bailee, etc., who pleads that the title is in some person other than his landlord, bailor, etc., is said to set up a jus tcrtii
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In the civll law. A peculiar or individual rule, differing from the jus commune, or common rule of right, and established for some special reason. Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 196
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In old European law. The law of staple; the right of staple. A right or privilege of certain towns of stop-ping imported merchandise, and compelling it to be offered for sale in their own markets. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 10
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The law of things. The law regulating the rights and powers of per-sons over things; how property is acquired, enjoyed, and transferred
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