Justice

I. fr. and eng. The virtue which one what is his due; that which is one's which is the object of the law; a judge judicial ofl Bcer of any lower grade, as a tice of the peace: in England a county special commission under the great seal county, the commission appointing all for that purpose jointly and severally, and to inquire of and determine felonies and in the county; in the United States, a either appointed by the executive or elected ing generally jurisdiction in smaller civil common-law powers. Justices of nisi In English law. Justices of assise: the who go circuit into the various counties pose of disposing of such causes as are In old English law. Justices of assise: a in eyre, appointed or commissioned to to death; a right which Jus publicum: public of the Roman state. Jus committed to writing, custom. Jus trium liberparent of three or more a thing; an inchoate and nomination and institution, as and full right, such as is right of the crane; the right means of a hoisting engine staple; the right of staple; stopping imported melxhansale in their own markets. Jusjurandam Inter alios an oath made between v. Res inter alios, etc. cause; a lawful ground; a by title, or upon some; to summon to do justice; consists in giving to every due or desert, the giving of of a common-law court; a justice of the peace. Jusmagistrate, appointed by to keep the peace in the justices within the county any two or more of them misdemeanors committed county officer of like powers, by the people, and havcases, in addition to the prius: v. Nisi prius. judges of the superior courts twice a year, for the purready for trial at the assizes. particular kind of justices determine certain actions to county throughout the kingdom, usually once every seven years, sometimes with a general commission to determine all manner of causes, sometimes for certain special purposes, as to deliver the gaols, and sometimes to take a single assise or two, and no more. Justices of the bench: the justices of the court of Coramon Bench or Common Pleas. Justices of gaol delivery: justices in eyre, who acted under a special commission to deliver the gaols of persons confined in them. Justices of the Jews: justices appointed by Richard L to carry into effect the laws which he made for regulating the contracts of the Jews. Justices of laborers: justices appointed to redress the forwardness of laboring men, who would either be idle or have unreasonable wages. Justices of oyer and terminer: ^ justices deputed upon some special occasion, to hear and determine some peculiar causes, such as cases of riotous assembly. Justices of trail-baston: justices appointed by King Edward L upon occasion of great disoi'ders in the realm, during his absence in the Scotch and French wars. Justices of the pavilion: judges of a pyepowder court, of a transcendent jurisdiction, anciently authorized by the Bishop of Winchester, at a fair held on St Giles' Hills. In Scots law. Justice ayres, or aires: circuits made by the judges of the justiciary courts through the kingdom, for the distribution of justice. In feudal law. Jurisdiction; judicial cognizance of causes or offenses; the right of dispensing justice; the hereditary jurisdiction of a feudal lord.