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Justice

The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law; integrity in the dealings of men with each other; rectitude; equity; uprightness.

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Adjudicator 76% connected

One who adjudicates.

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Assessment 76% connected

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

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Functionary 76% connected

One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries.

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Official 76% connected

Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine.

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Righteousness 76% connected

The quality or state of being righteous; holiness; purity; uprightness; rectitude.

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Administration 76% connected

The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office…

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Alcalde 76% connected

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc.

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Chief justice 76% connected

The presiding justice, or principal judge, of a court.

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Daniel 76% connected

A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge.

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Doge 76% connected

The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.

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Equity 76% connected

Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; f…

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Fairness 76% connected

The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

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Judicature 76% connected

The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.

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Justiciar 76% connected

Same as Justiciary.

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Justiciary 76% connected

An old name for the judges of the higher English courts.

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Magistrate 76% connected

A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

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Ordinary 76% connected

According to established order; methodical; settled; regular.

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Praetor 76% connected

See Pretor.

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Pretor 76% connected

A civil officer or magistrate among the ancient Romans.

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Recorder 76% connected

One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

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Right 76% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Rightfulness 76% connected

The quality or state of being rightful; accordance with right and justice.

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Trier 76% connected

One who tries; one who makes experiments; one who examines anything by a test or standard.

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Jurisprudence 74% connected

The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of…

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Jurisprudence 74% connected

The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws, customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for the due administration of…

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Law 74% connected

In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

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Law 74% connected

In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

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Synonym 3

Judge 92% connected

A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for…

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Jurist 92% connected

One who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, especially in the civil law; a writer on civil and international law.

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Justness 92% connected

The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness…

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Injustice 94% connected

Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.

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Injustice 94% connected

Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.

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Related word 1

Law 74% connected

In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order accordin…

general 10% interchangeable

Justice is connected to law, but it names a particular institution, source, principle or purpose rather than replacing the word law in every sentence.

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