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A satirical expre ion in common use, applied to the disproportionate sentences and extraordinary decisions of incompetent justices. *jus'-tiçe, v . t. [JUSTICE, subst .] To administer justice to. "The king delivered him to the French king, to be just iced by him at his pleasure." - Hayward. *jus'-tiçe-a-ble, a . [ Eng.justice ; -able .] Liable to be called to account in a court of justice. jus-tiçe-hood, s. [Eng. justice ; -hood.] The office or dignity of a justice; justiceship. "Should but the king his justice hood employ, In setting forth of such a solemn toy." Ben Jonson: Expostulation with Inigo Jones. *jus'-tiçe-ment, s. [Eng. justice ; -ment.] Procedure in courts of justice; the administration of justice . *jus-tiç-er, s. [Eng. justic(e); -er.] One who administers justice; a justiciary. "This shews you are above, You justicers , that these our nether crimes So speedily can venge." Shakesp.: Lear , iv. 2. justificative the absence of the sovereign from the kingdom, he was ex-officio regent. His office was thus one of the highest importance and influence. *3. One who boasts of the justice of his own acts. B. As adj.: Presided over by a justiciary. High Court of Justiciary : The supreme court of Scotland in criminal causes. It is presided over by the lord justice-general, who is a isted by the lord justice-clerk, and five lords of se ion. There is no appeal from its decisions. *Jus-ti-çi-ēş, s. [JUSTICE, ν.] Law : An old English writ addre ed to the sheriff, empowering him to hold plea of debt in his county court for any sum, his usual jurisdiction being limited to sums under forty shillings. jus-ti-cō, jūs'-ti-coat, s . [JUSTE-AU-CORPS.] jus-ti-fi-a-ble, a . [Eng. justify; -able.] That mayor can be justified, excused, or defended; capable of being justified or shown to be just; defensible by law or reason; vindicable; excusable. "Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men." Milton : Samson Agonistes , 294. justifiable-homicide, s. Law : Homicide ( i . e., the killing of a human being) in circumstances which render it a justifiable act. When, for instance, an executioner hangs a criminal legally condemned, or when no other way of preventing an atrocious crime, say murder, is available, the deed ceases to be murder and becomes justifiable-homicide. jus-ti-fi-a-ble-ne , s . [Eng. justifiable ; -ne .] The quality or state of being justifiable; capability of being justified, excused, or defended. "To this end they directed all their energies, carele of the honesty or justifiablene of the means." -J. S. Brewer : English Studies , p. 191. jus-ti-fi-a-bly, adv . [Eng. justifiab ( le ); -ly .] In a justifiable manner; so as to be justifiable, excusable, or defensible. "No man amongst us can justifiably plead weakne of conscience in that sense."- South : Sermons , vol. iii., ser. 5. jus-ti-fi-ca-tion, s . [Fr., from Lat. justifica tionem , acc us. of justificatio , from just if i cat us , pa. par. of just i fico to justify (q. v.); Sp.justification ; Ital. giust if i caz i one .] I. Ordinary Language : competent authority to administer justice. 1. Justices of the Peace : Public officers invested with judicial powers for the purpose of preventing breaches of the peace, and bringing to punishment those who have violated the law. They also have jurisdiction in certain states in civil suits for limited amounts. 2. Chief Justices : The presiding judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, and of the state supreme courts. Jus'-tiçe-ship, s . [English justice ; -ship .] The office or position of a judge or justice. "From this beginning having run through many degrees of honours, he mounted up to this dignitie of præfecture, or justiceship ." -P. Holland : Ammianus , p. 51. Jus-ti-ci-a (ca h), s. [Named after J. Justice, an ancient Scotch horticulturist and botanist.] Bot.: A genus of Acanth ads, tribe Eranthemee. It consists of ornamental and freely-flowering plants with red, purple, blue, white, or yellow flowers. They are natives of the hotter parts of Asia and America. Many are cultivated in greenhouses. Justicia ecbolium is a diuretic. *jus-ti-cl-a-ble (c as sh), a. [English justice -able .] Proper or fit to be examined in a court of justice. IMG:content-0192.png:[blocks in formation] II. Technically : 1. Bookbinding : Attention to keeping the matter of pages in exact register or correspondence, to secure even margins. 2. Law : The bringing forward in court of a sufficient reason why a defendant did what he is called upon to answer; such a plea must set forward some special matter. 3. Print .: The adjustment of distance between the letters in the words and the words in a line, so as to avoid any glaring disproportion, and make them fill the measure. 4. Theology : (1) Protestant Theol.: A forensic act by which God declares the sinner righteous, and acquits him of all guilt on account of the meritorious life and atoning death of Jesus Christ the Redeemer, imputed to the sinner and received by faith alone. The scripture pa ages adduced in support of this view are Isa. liii. 11; Acts xiii. 39; Rom. iii. 20-31, iv. 1-25, v. 16-21; viii. 30; Gal. ii. 16-21, iii. 8, 11; Tit. iii. 7, . A broad distinction is drawn between justification and sanctification. (See the Eleventh Article, and the Homily, Of Justification, also Confe ion of Faith, ch. xi.) (2) Roman Theol .: The infusion of righteousne into the sinner by the Spirit of God. On that view there is not e ential distinction between justification and sanctification. In support of this view, and against the distinction drawn by Protestants between justification and sanctification, Roman theologians cite 1 Cor. vi. 11. St. Paul has been telling the Corinthians that the "unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God." He continues, "And such were some of you; but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified." Here sanctification is put before justification. (See also Eph.iv. 24.)