Definition: justice

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

justice
     n 1: the quality of being just or fair [syn: justness] [ant: injustice]
     2: the administration of law; the act of determining rights and
        assigning rewards or punishments; "justice deferred is
        justice denied" [syn: judicature]
     3: a public official authorized to decide questions bought
        before a court of justice [syn: judge, jurist, magistrate]
     4: the federal department responsible for enforcing federal
        laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights
        legislation); created in 1870 [syn: Department of Justice,
         Justice Department, Justice]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Justice \Jus"tice\, 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.

Justice \Jus"tice\, v. t.
   To administer justice to. [Obs.] --Bacon.

Source: U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

Justice, IL (village, FIPS 38830)
  Location: 41.74640 N, 87.83552 W
  Population (1990): 11137 (4390 housing units)
  Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 60458

JUSTICE, n.  A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition
the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes
and personal service.


                                  K



K is a consonant that we get from the Greeks, but it can be traced
away back beyond them to the Cerathians, a small commercial nation
inhabiting the peninsula of Smero.  In their tongue it was called
_Klatch_, which means "destroyed."  The form of the letter was
originally precisely that of our H, but the erudite Dr. Snedeker
explains that it was altered to its present shape to commemorate the
destruction of the great temple of Jarute by an earthquake, _circa_
730 B.C.  This building was famous for the two lofty columns of its
portico, one of which was broken in half by the catastrophe, the other
remaining intact.  As the earlier form of the letter is supposed to
have been suggested by these pillars, so, it is thought by the great
antiquary, its later was adopted as a simple and natural -- not to say
touching -- means of keeping the calamity ever in the national memory. 
It is not known if the name of the letter was altered as an additional
mnemonic, or if the name was always _Klatch_ and the destruction one
of nature's pums.  As each theory seems probable enough, I see no
objection to believing both -- and Dr. Snedeker arrayed himself on
that side of the question.

Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

Justice
   is rendering to every one that which is his due. It has been
   distinguished from equity in this respect, that while justice
   means merely the doing what positive law demands, equity means
   the doing of what is fair and right in every separate case.