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J0087600 (jŭs′tĭs)n.1. The quality of being just; fairness: In the interest of justice, we should treat everyone the same.2. a. The principle of moral rightness; decency.b. Conformity to moral rightness in action or attitude; righteousness: argued for the justice of his cause.3. a. The attainment of what is just, especially that which is fair, moral, right, merited, or in accordance with law: My client has not received justice in this hearing.b. Law The upholding of what is just, especially fair treatment and due reward in accordance with honor, standards, or law: We seek justice in this matter from the court.c. The administration, system, methods, or procedures of law: a conspiracy to obstruct justice; a miscarriage of justice.4. Conformity to truth, fact, or sound reason: The overcharged customer was angry, and with justice.5. Abbr. J. Law A judge on the highest court of a government, such as a judge on the US Supreme Court.Idiom: do justice to To treat adequately, fairly, or with full appreciation: The subject is so complex that I cannot do justice to it in a brief survey.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin iūstitia, from iūstus, just; see just¹.]

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(ˈdʒʌstɪs) n1. the quality or fact of being just2. (Philosophy) ethics a. the principle of fairness that like cases should be treated alikeb. a particular distribution of benefits and burdens fairly in accordance with a particular conception of what are to count as like casesc. the principle that punishment should be proportionate to the offence3. (Law) the administration of law according to prescribed and accepted principles4. (Law) conformity to the law; legal validity5. (Professions) a judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature6. (Professions) short for justice of the peace7. good reason (esp in the phrase with justice): he was disgusted by their behaviour, and with justice. 8. do justice to a. to show to full advantage: the picture did justice to her beauty. b. to show full appreciation of by action: he did justice to the meal. c. to treat or judge fairly9. do oneself justice to make full use of one's abilities10. (Law) bring to justice to capture, try, and usually punish (a criminal, an outlaw, etc)[C12: from Old French, from Latin jūstitia, from justus just]

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n. 1. the quality of being just; righteousness, equitableness, or moral rightness. 2. rightfulness or lawfulness, as of a claim: to complain with justice. 3. justness of ground or reason. 4. the quality of being true or correct. 5. the moral principle determining just conduct. 6. conformity to this principle, as manifested in conduct; just dealing or treatment: to seek justice. 7. the administering of deserved punishment or reward. 8. the maintenance or administration of what is just according to law: a court of justice. 9. judgment of individuals or causes by judicial process: to administer justice. 10. a judicial officer; a judge or magistrate. Idioms: 1. bring to justice, to cause to come before a court for trial or to receive punishment for one's misdeeds. 2. do justice to, a. to act fairly toward. b. to appreciate properly. c. to reflect or express the worth of properly. [1150–1200; Middle English < Old French < Latin jūstitia=jūst(us) just¹ + -itia -ice]

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high court - A supreme court of justice.
attain - First meant "bring to justice."
revenge, justice - Revenge is personal and justice is societal.
blind justice - The Greek statue for justice is wearing a blindfold so she cannot see the bribes being offered to her, hence blind justice.

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Even, it [justice] is as the sun on a flat plain; uneven, it strikes like the sun on a thicket —Malay proverb
Injustice … gathers like dust under everything —Rainer Maria Rilke
Just as a sentence meted out by a kangaroo court —Anon
Justice … inevitable as the law of cause and effect —L. P. Hartley
Justice is like a train that’s nearly always late —Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Justice is like the kingdom of God; it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning —George Eliot
Shed justice like paladins —Jonathan Valin
The tongue of the just is as choice silver —The Holy Bible/Proverbs
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering … like an unfinished equation —Mary McCarthy
We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream —Martin Luther King Jr., speech, June 15, 1963
This is from King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains. Your judgments are like the great deep —The Holy Bible/Psalms
‘Your’ replaces the biblical ‘thy.’

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	justice - the quality of being just or fair justnessrighteousness - adhering to moral principlesfairness, equity - conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim"natural virtue - (scholasticism) one of the four virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) derived from naturerightfulness, right - anything in accord with principles of justice; "he feels he is in the right"; "the rightfulness of his claim"unjustness, injustice - the practice of being unjust or unfair
	2.	justice - judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishmentsjudicature, administration - the act of meting out justice according to the lawjudgment, assessment, judgement - the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants"prejudice - disadvantage by prejudice
	3.	justice - a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justicejudge, juristadjudicator - a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputesalcalde - a mayor or chief magistrate of a Spanish townchief justice - the judge who presides over a supreme courtDaniel - a wise and upright judge; "a Daniel come to judgment" -- Shakespearedoge - formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoajusticiar, justiciary - formerly a high judicial officermagistrate - a lay judge or civil authority who administers the law (especially one who conducts a court dealing with minor offenses)functionary, official - a worker who holds or is invested with an officeordinary - a judge of a probate courtpraetor, pretor - an annually elected magistrate of the ancient Roman Republicqadi - an Islamic judgerecorder - a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughstrial judge - a judge in a trial courttrier - one (as a judge) who examines and settles a case
	4.	Justice - the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Departmentlegislation, statute law - law enacted by a legislative bodyexecutive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United StatesBJA, Bureau of Justice Assistance - the bureau in the Department of Justice that assists local criminal justice systems to reduce or prevent crime and violence and drug abuseBJS, Bureau of Justice Statistics - the agency in the Department of Justice that is the primary source of criminal justice statistics for federal and local policy makersFBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of JusticeDEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency - federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizationsBoP, Federal Bureau of Prisons - the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimesNational Institute of Justice, NIJ - the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of JusticeMarshals, United States Marshals Service, US Marshals Service - the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial systemlaw, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

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noun1. fairness, equity, integrity, honesty, decency, impartiality, rectitude, reasonableness, uprightness, justness, rightfulness, right There is no justice in this world!
fairness wrong, injustice, dishonesty, favouritism, unfairness, inequity, partiality, unreasonableness, unlawfulness2. fairness, legitimacy, reasonableness, justness, right, integrity, honesty, legality, rectitude, rightfulness We must win people round to the justice of our cause.3. law A lawyer is part of the machinery of justice.4. judge, magistrate, beak (Brit. slang), His, Her or Your Honour a justice on the Supreme CourtRelated words
fear dikephobiaQuotations
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer" [William Blackstone Commentaries]
"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity" [Alexander Solzhenitsyn Letter to three students]
"Justice should not only be done, but should manifestly and undoubtedly be seen to be done" [Lord Hewart]
"For me, justice is the first condition of humanity" [Wole Soyinka The Man Died]

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noun1. The quality or state of being just and unbiased:detachment, disinterest, disinterestedness, dispassion, dispassionateness, equitableness, fair-mindedness, fairness, impartiality, impartialness, justness, nonpartisanship, objectiveness, objectivity.2. The state, action, or principle of treating all persons equally in accordance with the law:due process, equity.3. A public official who decides cases brought before a court of law in order to administer justice:judge, jurisprudent, jurist, justice of the peace, magistrate.

Translations

正义法官公正司法审判

justice

(ˈdʒastis) noun1. fairness or rightness in the treatment of other people. Everyone has a right to justice; I don't deserve to be punished – where's your sense of justice? 正义，公正 2. the law or the administration of it. Their dispute had to be settled in a court of justice. 司法，审判 3. a judge. 法官bring to justice to arrest, try and sentence (a criminal). The murderer escaped but was finally brought to justice.把…送交法院审判do (someone/something) justice / do justice to (someone/something) 1. to treat fairly or properly. It would not be doing him justice to call him lazy when he's so ill.公平对待2. to fulfil the highest possibilities of; to get the best results from; to show fully or fairly. I was so tired that I didn't do myself justice in the exam.充分发挥自己的能力in justice to (him, *heretc) / to do (him, *heretc) justice if one must be fair (to him, her etc). To do her justice, I must admit that she was only trying to help when she broke the cup.为了对...公正起见

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1. Ethicsa. the principle of fairness that like cases should be treated alike b. a particular distribution of benefits and burdens fairly in accordance with a particular conception of what are to count as like cases c. the principle that punishment should be proportionate to the offence 2. the administration of law according to prescribed and accepted principles 3. conformity to the law; legal validity

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the general principle that individuals should receive what they deserve. The definition, a common-sense one, has also received many philosophical formulations, including classical philosophers from ARISTOTLE to KANT. More recently the ideas of the US philosopher John RAWLS (A Theory of Justice, 1971) have been highly influential.
legal justice, sometimes called ‘corrective justice’, the application of the law, and the administration of the legal institutions, which in modern societies are mainly operated by trained legal professionals. Here conceptions of formal or procedural fairness are uppermost, i.e. the operation of the law according to prescribed principles or ‘due process’ (e.g. ‘the rule of law’). see also CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
social justice, general conceptions of ‘social fairness’, which may or may not be at odds with conceptions of ‘individual justice’, or with conceptions of justice in sense 2 . Competing conceptions of social justice also exist. For example, Utilitarian conceptions of justice, which emphasize an assessment of collective benefit as the overriding consideration, are at odds with conceptions which emphasize a balance of individual and collective rights.

While influenced by philosophical conceptions, sociologists have generally attempted to avoid the abstractions and definitional debates which have characterized philosophical works on justice. The major location of sociological work has been in discussions of political and CIVIL RIGHTS and particularly welfare and social policy. The central focus has been on distributive justice, i.e. the substantive allocation of benefits, rather than merely formal or procedural conceptions of justice.

It is as an example of a philosophical approach which combines formal and substantive concerns that Rawls’ discussion has attracted particular attention. Defining justice as ‘fairness’, Rawls asks what people would be likely to regard as fair in a hypothetical ‘original position’ in which a ‘veil of ignorance’ prevents them having knowledge of their own possession of social characteristics. Rawls’ suggestion is that inequalities are acceptable only if they leave all people better off. Thus Rawls also supports state interference. A contrary view (e.g. Robert Nozick's (1974) elegant defence of the ‘minimalist state’) is that justice consists in the recognition and protection of individual rights, including PROPERTY rights.

Although the differences between conceptions of justice may appear sharp, and often overlain with ideology, empirical resolutions should not be ruled out. For example, theories as apparently divergent as those of Rawls, Nozick, or Hayek (1944) all involve arguments about aggregate economic benefits and their distribution which potentially at least are empirically resolvable, however difficult in practice this may be to achieve (compare ESSENTIALLY CONTESTED CONCEPT, HABERMAS). One route, for example, taken by Barrington MOORE (1972,1978) is to focus on ‘injustice’, his assumption being that agreements on this will be more easily reached. See also BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, EQUALITY, EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY, NATURAL RIGHTS AND NATURAL LAW, EXPLOITATION, DISCRIMINATION, SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY.

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a concept about what should be, a concept that is consistent with certain notions about the essence of man and man’s inalienable rights. Justice is a category of the moral-legal and sociopolitical consciousness. The concept of justice necessarily requires that individuals’ (social groups’) social status correspond to their actual role in society, that their duties correspond to their rights, that retribution correspond to deed, pay to work, punishment to crime, and social recognition to merit. Any noncorre-spondence in these relationships is considered injustice.

In the history of social consciousness, the first conception of justice was associated with the acknowledgment that the norms of the primitive order were undisputed. Justice here was simple conformity to the accepted order. In social practice this conception of justice was negative in sense—it demanded punishment for violation of the general norm. One practical expression of this conception was clan retaliation against an offender. A more refined, affirmative conception of justice, one that included the allotment of benefits to people, emerged as individuals gained an identity distinct from that of the clan. Originally, this conception meant primarily the equality of all in the enjoyment of rights and the means of life.

With the appearance of private property and social inequality, justice came increasingly to be distinguished from equality, embracing a differentiation among people according to merit. Aristotle was the first to distinguish between corrective (or retributive) and distributive justice; in his view, a special form of justice was retribution, which should originate in the principle of proportionality. This differentiation between the justice of equality and the justice of proportionality (according to merit) was subsequently preserved throughout the history of class society. At the same time, the popular consciousness always kept alive, side by side with the concept of justice that reflected the structure of existing class relations, an idea of justice that expressed a protest against exploitation, inequality, and national oppression.

From the point of view of Marxism, the concept of justice is always historical, always the result of the conditions in which people (classes) find themselves. The founders of Marxism-Leninism repeatedly emphasized that evaluating social reality from the standpoint of justice “does not move us one step forward scientifically” (F. Engels, in K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 20, p. 153). Human social relations can be called just only in the sense that they correspond to historical necessity with respect to the practical possibility of creating conditions of human life that answer to a given historical epoch.

The socialist conception of justice includes equality with respect to the means of production and with respect to real political and legal rights. Under socialism, differences in the character of labor and in the distribution of consumer goods still remain. As V. I. Lenin wrote, “Marx shows the course of development of communist society, which is compelled to abolish at first only the ’injustice’ of the means of production seized by individuals, and which is unable at once to eliminate the other injustice, which consists in the distribution of consumer goods ’according to the amount of labor performed’ (and not according to needs)” (Poln. sobr. soch., 5th ed., vol. 33, p. 93). In communist society, full congruence of justice and social equality is achieved.

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personified as a blindfolded goddess, token of impartiality. [Rom. Tradition: Jobes II, 898]See: Blindness

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See also Lawgiving.Kidnapping (See ABDUCTION.)Killing (See ASSASSINATION, INFANTICIDE, MURDER, PATRICIDE.)Aeacusa judge of the dead. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]Ahasuerus(519–465 B.C.) Persian king rectifies wrongs done to Jews. [O.T.: Esther 8:7–8]Arthur, Kingtrained by Merlin to become a just ruler, he endeavors all his life to establish a realm where justice prevails. [Br. Lit.: Malory Le Mort d’Arthur]Ashain moral sphere, presides over righteousness. [Zoroastrianism: Jobes, 138]Astraeagoddess of justice. [Gk. Myth.: Benét, 59]Baratariaisland-city where Sancho Panza, as governor, settles disputes equitably. [Span. Lit.: Cervantes Don Quixote]blindfoldworn by personification of justice. [Art: Hall, 183]bluein American flag, symbolizes justice. [Color Symbolism: Leach, 242; Jobes, 356]Brown vs. Board of Educationlandmark Supreme Court decision barring segregation of schools (1954). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 544]Cambyses, Judgmentof corrupt judge’s flayed flesh provides judicial throne. [Gk. Hist.: Herodotus]Carlos, Donconscience piqued, tries to lift Spanish yoke from Flemish. [Ger. Lit.: Don Carlos]Cauchon, Bishoppresided impartially over the ecclesiastical trial of Joan of Arc. [Fr. Hist.: EB, (1963) V, 60]Dikeone of Horae; personification of natural law and justice. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 85]Gideon v. Wainwrightestablished right of all defendants to counsel (1963). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 585]Hattoduring a famine he saves food for the rich by burning the poor, whom he compares to mice; mice invade his tower and devour him. [Ger. Legend: Brewer Dictionary, 439]Henry VII(1457–1509) deliverer of Richard III’s just deserts. [Br. Lit.: Richard III]International Court of Justicemain judicial organ of U.N. [World Hist.: NCE, 1351]Librasign of the balance, weighing of right and wrong. [Zodiac: Brewer Dictionary, 640]Minoshis justice approved even by the gods; became one of the three judges of the dead. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 168]Moranequitable councillor to King Feredach. [Irish Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 728]Moran’s collarstrangled wearer if he judged unfairly. [Irish Folklore: Brewer Dictionary, 728]Nuremberg Trialssurviving Nazi leaders put on trial (1946). [Eur. Hist.: Van Doren, 512]Portiaas a lawyer, ingeniously interprets to Shylock the terms of Antonio’s bond. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice]Prince Posettles dispute over a stolen child by asking the two claimants to pull it out of a circle of chalk by its arms. [Chin. Drama: The Circle of Chalk in Magill III, 193; cf. Brecht The Caucasian Chalk Circle in Weiss, 74]Rhadamanthusmade judge in lower world for earthly impartiality. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Handbook, 911]rudbeckiaindicates fairness. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 177]scalessignify impartiality. [Art: Hall, 183]scepterdenotes fairness and righteousness. [Heraldry: Halberts, 37]Solomonperspicaciously resolves dilemma of baby’s ownership. [O.T.: I Kings 16–28]stars, garland ofemblem of equity. [Western Folklore: Jobes, 374]sword and scalesattributes of St. Michael as devil-fighter and judge. [Christian Symbolism: Appleton, 98]Tale of Two Cities, Abarrister London Stryver gets Charles Darnay acquitted by showing his resemblance to Sydney Carton. [Br. Lit.: Dickens A Tale of Two Cities]Valley of Jehoshaphatwhere men will be ultimately tried before God. [O.T.: Joel 3:2]World Courtpopular name for International Court of Justice which assumed functions of the World Court. [World Hist.: NCE, 3006–3007]Yves, St.equitable and incorruptible priest-lawyer. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 347

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noun the quality or state of being just and unbiased

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noun the state, action, or principle of treating all persons equally in accordance with the law

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