Justification

(jūs-tif-e-ka'shūn.) [From L. just us, equitable, and facio, I make.] (Law.) The showing good reason, in a court of law, why one has done that for which he is called to answer. (Theol.) The act by which a person is accounted just or righteous in the sight of God, or is placed in a state of salvation. [s. 511]