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.