Justice

jus′tis, n. quality of being just: integrity: impartiality: desert: retribution: a judge: a magistrate.— ns. Jus′ticeship , office or dignity of a justice or judge; Justic′iary , Justic′iar , an administrator of justice: a chief-justice.— Justice of the Peace (abb. J.P.), an inferior magistrate; Justices' justice , a term sarcastically applied to the kind of justice sometimes administered by the unpaid and amateur magistracy of England.— Lord Chief-justice , the chief judge of the King's (or Queen's) Bench Division of the High Court of Justice; Lord Justice-clerk , the Scottish judge ranking next to the Lord-Justice-general, presiding over the Outer House or Second Division of the Court of Se ion, vice-president of the High Court of Justiciary; Lord Justice-general , the highest judge in Scotland, called also the Lord President of the Court of Se ion.— High Court of Justiciary , the supreme criminal court of justice in Scotland. [Fr.,—L. just it i a .]