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Rightfulness

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

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Justice 76% connected

The quality of being just; conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things; strict performance of moral obligations; practi…

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Justness 76% 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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Lawful 74% connected

Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

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Lawful 74% connected

Conformable to law; allowed by law; legitimate; competent.

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Rightful 74% connected

Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.

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Rightful 74% connected

Righteous; upright; just; good; -- said of persons.

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Right 92% connected

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

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Action noun · 78% connection

A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforce…

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Authority noun · 78% connection

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisd…

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Certiorari noun · 78% connection

A writ issuing out of chancery, or a superior court, to call up the records of a inferior court, or remove a cause there depending, in…

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Claim noun · 78% connection

demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"

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Common noun · 78% connection

The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the comm…

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Cone noun · 78% connection

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

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Deforce verb · 78% connection

To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold.

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Deforciant noun · 78% connection

One who keeps out of possession the rightful owner of an estate.

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Dextrality noun · 78% connection

The state of being on the right-hand side; also, the quality of being right-handed; right-handedness.

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Equatorial noun · 78% connection

An instrument consisting of a telescope so mounted as to have two axes of motion at right angles to each other, one of them parallel t…

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Greencloth noun · 78% connection

A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and…

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Judicatory adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.

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Judicature noun · 78% connection

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

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Judicial adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned…

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Justicement noun · 78% connection

Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice.

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King's Bench unknown · 78% connection

Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chi…

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Mutiny noun · 78% connection

Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline…

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Obedience noun · 78% connection

The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restra…

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