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Justifiable homicide
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Justifiable homicideThat which is committed with the intention to kill, or to do a grievous bodily injury, under circumstances which the law holds sufficient to exculpate the person who commits it.
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Intention
A design, resolve, or determination of the mind.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Exculpate
Something that excuses or justifies a wrong action.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
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Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Justice League
Having nothing to do with any matters pertaining to the legal profession, Justice League is an animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network.
Justices
1) The constant and perpetual disposition to render every man his due. Toullier defines it to be the conformity of our actions and our will to the law. In the most extensive sense of the word, it differs little from virtue, for it includes within itself the whole circle of virtues. Yet the common distinction between them is that that which considered positively and in itself, is called virtue, when considered relatively and with respect to others, has the name of justice. 2) Judges. Officers appointed by a competent authority to administer justice. They are so called, because, in ancient times the Latin word for judge was justicia. This term is in common parlance used to designate justices of the peace.
Justices in eyre
They were certain judges established if not first appointed. England was divided into certain circuits, and three justices in eyre, or justices itinerant, as they were sometimes called, were appointed to each district, and made the circuit of the kingdom once in seven years for the purpose of trying causes. They were afterwards directed by Magna Charta, to be sent into every county once a year. The itinerant justices were sometimes mere justices of assize or dower, or of general gaol delivery, and the like
Justicia
Spanish for "justice".
Justiciable
Issues and claims capable of being properly examined in court.
Justiciar
A judge, or justice the same as justiciary.
Justiciarii itinerantes
English law. They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called justices in eyre to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminster, who were called justicii residentes.
Justiciarii residentes
English law. They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
Justiciary
Officer. Another name for a judge. In Latin, he was called justiciciarius, and in French, justicier. Not used.
Justicies
English law. The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice."
Justification
The act by which a party accused shows and maintains a good and legal reason in court, why he did the thing he is called upon to answer.
Justificators
A kind of compurgators, or those who, by oath, justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of wagers of law.
Justifying bail
Practice. The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves Against the exception of the plaintiff.
Justinian code
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;
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Justiciar
A judge, or justice the same as justiciary.
Justiciarii itinerantes
English law. They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called justices in eyre to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminster, who were called justicii residentes.
Justiciarii residentes
English law. They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
Justiciary
Officer. Another name for a judge. In Latin, he was called justiciciarius, and in French, justicier. Not used.
Justicies
English law. The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice."
Justifiable homicide
Justification
The act by which a party accused shows and maintains a good and legal reason in court, why he did the thing he is called upon to answer.
Justificators
A kind of compurgators, or those who, by oath, justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of wagers of law.
Justifying bail
Practice. The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves Against the exception of the plaintiff.
Justinian code
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;
RELATED TERMS--------------------------------------
Intention
A design, resolve, or determination of the mind.
Injury
Any legal harm, wrong or damage done to a person's body, property, rights or reputation, and that the law recognizes as deserving of redress.
Exculpate
Something that excuses or justifies a wrong action.
Person
This word is applied to men, women and children, who are called natural persons.
SIMILAR TERMS--------------------------------------
Just
This epithet is applied to that which agrees with a given law which is the test of right and wrong. It is that which accords with the perfect rights of others. By just is also understood full and perfect, as a just weight.
Justice
Fairness. A state of affairs in which conduct or action is both fair and right, given the circumstances. In law, it more specifically refers to the paramount obligation to ensure that all persons are treated fairly. Litigants "seek justice" by asking for compensation for wrongs committed against them; to right the inequity such that, with the compensation, a wrong has been righted and the balance of "good" or "virtue" over "wrong" or "evil" has been corrected.
Justice League
Having nothing to do with any matters pertaining to the legal profession, Justice League is an animated series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network.
Justices
1) The constant and perpetual disposition to render every man his due. Toullier defines it to be the conformity of our actions and our will to the law. In the most extensive sense of the word, it differs little from virtue, for it includes within itself the whole circle of virtues. Yet the common distinction between them is that that which considered positively and in itself, is called virtue, when considered relatively and with respect to others, has the name of justice. 2) Judges. Officers appointed by a competent authority to administer justice. They are so called, because, in ancient times the Latin word for judge was justicia. This term is in common parlance used to designate justices of the peace.
Justices in eyre
They were certain judges established if not first appointed. England was divided into certain circuits, and three justices in eyre, or justices itinerant, as they were sometimes called, were appointed to each district, and made the circuit of the kingdom once in seven years for the purpose of trying causes. They were afterwards directed by Magna Charta, to be sent into every county once a year. The itinerant justices were sometimes mere justices of assize or dower, or of general gaol delivery, and the like
Justicia
Spanish for "justice".
Justiciable
Issues and claims capable of being properly examined in court.
Justiciar
A judge, or justice the same as justiciary.
Justiciarii itinerantes
English law. They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called justices in eyre to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminster, who were called justicii residentes.
Justiciarii residentes
English law. They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
Justiciary
Officer. Another name for a judge. In Latin, he was called justiciciarius, and in French, justicier. Not used.
Justicies
English law. The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice."
Justification
The act by which a party accused shows and maintains a good and legal reason in court, why he did the thing he is called upon to answer.
Justificators
A kind of compurgators, or those who, by oath, justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of wagers of law.
Justifying bail
Practice. The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves Against the exception of the plaintiff.
Justinian code
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;
PREVIOUS AND NEXT TERMS--------------------------------------
Justiciar
A judge, or justice the same as justiciary.
Justiciarii itinerantes
English law. They were formerly justices, who were so called because they went from county to county to administer justice. They were usually called justices in eyre to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminster, who were called justicii residentes.
Justiciarii residentes
English law. They were justices or judges, who usually resided in Westminster; they were so called to distinguish them from justices in eyre.
Justiciary
Officer. Another name for a judge. In Latin, he was called justiciciarius, and in French, justicier. Not used.
Justicies
English law. The name of a writ which acquires its name from the mandatory words which it contains, "that you do A B justice."
Justifiable homicide
Justification
The act by which a party accused shows and maintains a good and legal reason in court, why he did the thing he is called upon to answer.
Justificators
A kind of compurgators, or those who, by oath, justified the innocence or oaths of others, as in the case of wagers of law.
Justifying bail
Practice. The production of bail in court, who there justify themselves Against the exception of the plaintiff.
Justinian code
Civil law. A collection of the constitutions of the emperors, from Adrian to Justinian;
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