| 单词 | expletive justice |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexpletive justice expletive justice n. = commutative justice n. at commutative adj. 1b; cf. expletory justice n. at expletory adj. 1. ΚΠ 1652Expletive Justice [see sense A. 2]. 1715 J. Morrice et al. tr. H. Grotius Of Rights War & Peace I. i. 42 Aristotle says, that an Expletive Justice has respect to a Simple, which he calls..Arithmetical Proportion. 1751 A. McDouall Inst. Laws Scotl. I. i. i. 3 Expletive justice is more comprehensive than commutative, which seems to be confined to an equality in contracts. 1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. iv. 415 Punishment..is not a part of attributive and hardly of expletive justice. 1883 W. M. Best Princ. Law Evid. (ed. 7) 24 Under a system of municipal jurisprudence, expletive justice must be understood to mean that which may be claimed of strict legal right. 1983 I. Hont & M. Ignatieff Wealth & Virtue i. 29 Expletive justice was about ‘perfect rights’, the chief of which were rights of property. 2013 N. Biggar In Def. of War v. 180 Determining who is the owner of a coat is an act of expletive justice, for example, while determining who would fit it best is an act of attributive justice. < as lemmas |
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