Emily Dickinson Lexicon

JU-RIS-PRU'DEN'T, a.

Understanding law. West.

JU-RIS-PRU-DEN'TIAL, a.

Pertaining to jurisprudence. Ward.

JUR'IST, n. [Fr. juriste; giurista; Sp. jurista; from L. jus, juris, law.]

1. A man who professes the science of law; one versed in the law, or more particularly, in the civil law; a civilian. Bacon
2. One versed in the law of nations, or who writes on the subject.

JU'ROR, n. [L. jurator; or rather juro, to swear.]

One that serves on a jury; one sworn to deliver the truth on the evidence given him concerning any matter in question or on trial.

JU'RY, n. [Fr. juri, sworn; L. juro, to swear.]

A number of freeholders, selected in the manner prescribe by law, impounded and sworn to inquire into and try any matter of fact, and to declare the truth on the evidence given them in the case. Grand juries consist usually o twenty-four freeholders at least, and are summoned to try matters alledged in indictments. Petty juries, consisting usually of twelve men, attend courts to try matters of fact in civil causes, and to decide both the law and the fact in criminal prosecutions. The decision of a petty jury is called a verdict.

JU'RY-MAN, n.

One who is impanneled on a jury, or who serves as a juror.

JU'RY-MAST, n.

A mast erected in a ship, to supply the place of one carried away in a tempest or an engagement, &c. The most probable origin of the word jury, in this compound, is that proposed by Thomson, viz. from the Fr. jour, day, quasi, jouré, temporary, or from L. juvare, to assist. Jus gentium. [L.] The law of nations.

JUST, a. [Fr. juste; Sp. justo; It. giusto; L. justus. The primary sense is probably straight or close, from the lens of setting, erecting, or extending.]

1. Regular; orderly; due; suitable. When all The war shall stand ranged in its just array. Addison.
2. Exactly proportioned; proper. Pleaseth your lordship To meet his grace, just distance 'tween our armies? Shak.
3. Full; complete to the common standard. He was comely personage, a little above just stature. Bacon.
4. Full; true; a sense allied to the preceding, or the same. So that once the skirmish was like to have come to a just battle. Knolles.
5. In a moral sense, upright; honest; having principles of rectitude; or conforming exactly to the laws, and to principles of rectitude in social conduct; equitable in the distribution of justice; as, a just judge.
6. In an evangelical sense, righteous; religious; influenced by a regard to the laws of God; or living in exact conformity to the divine will. There is not a just man on earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. Eccles. vii.
7. Conformed to rules of justice; doing equal justice. Just balances, just weights, a just ephah and a just hin shall ye have. Lev. xix.
8. Conformed to truth; exact; proper; accurate; as just thoughts; just expressions; just images or representations; a just description; a just inference.
9. True; founded in truth and fact; as, a just charge or accusation.
10. Innocent; blameless; without guilt. How should man be just with God? Job ix.
11. Equitable; due; merited; as, a just recompense or reward. Whose damnation is just. Rom. iii.
12. True to promises; faithful; as, just to one's word or engagements.
13. Impartial; allowing what is due; giving fair representation of character, merit or demerit.

JUST, adv.

1. Close or closely; near or nearly, in place. He stood just by the speaker, and heard what he said. He stood just at the entrance of the city.
2. Near or nearly in time; almost. Just at that moment he arose and fled.
3. Exactly; nicely; accurately. They remain just of the same opinion. 'Tis with our judgments as our watches; none Go just alike, yet each believes his own. Pope.
4. Merely; barely; exactly. And having just enough, not covet more. Dryden.
5. Narrowly. He just escaped without injury.

JUST, n. [Fr. jouste, now joute; Sp. justa; Port. id.; It. giostra; probably from the root of jostle or jostle. The primary sense is to thrust, to drive, to push.]

A mock encounter on horseback; a combat for sport or for exercise, in which the combatants pushed with lances and swords, man to man, in mock fight; a tilt; one of the exercises at tournaments. Encyc.

JUST, v.i. [Fr, jouter; Sp. and Port. justar; It. giostrere.]

1. To engage in mock fight on horseback.
2. To push; to drive; to justle.

JUST'ICE, n. [Fr.; Sp. justicia; It. giustizia; from L. justitia, from justus, just.]

1. The virtue which consists in giving to every one what is his due; practical conformity to the laws und to principles of rectitude in the dealings of men with each other; honesty; integrity in commerce or mutual intercourse. Justice is distributive or commutative. Distributive justice belongs to magistrates or rulers, and consists in distributing to every man that right or equity which the laws and the principles of equity require; or in deciding controversies according to the laws and to principles of equity. Commutative justice consists in fair dealing in trade and mutual intercourse between man and man.
2. Impartiality; equal distribution of right in expressing opinions; fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit. In criticisms, narrations, history or discourse, it is a duty to do justice to every man, whether friend or foe.
3. Equity; agreeableness to right; as, he proved the justice of his claim. This should, in strictness, be justness.
4. Vindictive retribution; merited punishment. Sooner or later, justice overtakes the criminal.
5. Right; application of equity. His arm will do him justice.
6. [Low L. justiciarius.] A person commissioned to hold courts, or to try and decide controversies and administer justice to individuals; its, the Chief Justice of the king's bench, or of the common pleas, in England; the Chief Justice of the supreme court in the United States, &c., and justices of the peace.

JUST'ICE, v.t.

To administer justice. [Little used.] Bacon.

JUST'ICE-A-BLE, a.

Liable to account in a court of justice. [Not used.] Hayward.

JUST'I-CER, a.

An administrator of justice. [Not used.] Bp. Hall.

JUST'ICE-SHIP, n.

The office or dignity of a justice. Swift.

JUS-TI'CIA-RY, or JUS-TI'CIAR, n. [L. justiciartus.]

1. An administrator of justice. Burke.
2. A chief justice. Blackstone.
3. One that boasts of the justice of his own act. [Not used.] Dering.

JUST'IF-I-ABLE, a. [from justify.]

That may be proved to be just; that may be vindicated on principles of law, reason, rectitude or propriety; defensible; vindicable. No breach of law or moral obligation is justifiable. The execution of a malefactor in pursuance of a sentence of court, is justifiable homicide.

JUST'IF-I-A-BLE-NESS, n.

The quality of being justifiable; rectitude; possibility of being defended or vindicated. King Charles.

JUST'IF-I-A-BLY, adv.

In a manner that admits of vindication or justification; rightly.

JUST-IF-IC-A'TION, n. [Fr. from justifier, to justify.]

1. The act of justifying; a showing to be just or conformable to law, rectitude or propriety; vindication; defense. The court listened to the evidence and arguments in justification of the prisoner's conduct. Our disobedience to God's commands admits no justification.
2. Absolution. I hope, for my mother's justification, he wrote this but as an essay of my virtue. Shak.
3. In late, the showing of a sufficient reason in court why a defendant did what he is called to answer. Pleas in justification must set forth some special matter.
4. In theology, remission of sin and absolution from guilt and punishment; or an act of free grace by which God pardons the sinner and accepts him as righteous, on account of the atonement of Christ.

JUST-IF'IC-A-TIVE, a.

Justifying; that has power to justify.

JUST-IF-IC-A'TOR, n.

One who justifies. [Little used.]

JUS'TI-FI-CA-TO-RY, a.

Serving to justify.

JUST'I-FI-ER, n.

1. One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports or defends.
2. He who pardons and absolves from guilt and punishment. That he might he just, and the justifier of him who believeth in Jesus. Rom. iii.