Category: J

Rank or office of a justice.

Proper to be examined in courts of justice.

Opposing wants of two or more parties needing redress or remedy.

In old English law. A judge or justice. One of several persons learned in the law, who sat in the aula regis, and formed a kind of court of appeal in cases of difficulty.

In English law. Justices in eyre, who formerly went from county to county to administer justice. They were so called to distinguish tliem from justices residing at Westminister, who were called “justicii residentes.” Co. Litt. 293.

In English law. Justices or judges who usually resided in Westminister. They were so called to distinguish them from justices iu eyre. Co. Litt. 293.

An old name for a judge or justice. The word is formed on the analogy of the Latin “justiciarius” and French “justicier.”

The chief criminal court of Scotland, consisting of five lords of session, added to the justice general and justice clerk; of whom the justice general, and, in his absence, the justice clerk, is president. This court has a jurisdiction over all crimes, and over the whole of Scotland. Bell. JUSTICIATUS 684 JUZGADO

Judicature; prerogative.

In English law. A writ directed to the sheriff, empowering him, for the sake of dispatch, to try an action in his county court for a larger amount than lie has the ordinary power to do. It is so called because it is a commission to the sheriff to do the party justice, the word itself meaning, “You may do justice to .” 3 Bl. Comm. 30; 4 lust. 200.