Definition of justice
- a. - 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.
- a. - 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.
- a. - 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.
- a. - Agreeableness to right; equity; justness; as, the justice
of a claim.
- a. - A person duly commissioned to hold courts, or to try and
decide controversies and administer justice.
- v. t. - To administer justice to.