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  • JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
    In American law. A judicial officer of inferior rank holding a court not of record, and having (usually) civil jurisdiction of a limited nature, for the trial of minor cases, to an extent prescribed by statute, and for the conservation of the peace and the preliminary hearing of criminal complaints More...
  • JUSTICES COURTS
    Inferior tribunals, not of record, with limited jurisdiction, both civil and criminal, held by justices of the peace. There are courts so .called in many of the states. See Searl v. Shanks, 9 N. D. 204, 82 N. W. 734; Brownfleld v. Thompson, 96 Mo. App. 340, 70 S. W. More...
  • JUSTICEMENTS
    An old general term for all things appertaining to justice.
  • JUSTICER
    The old form of justice. Blount
  • JUSTICESHIP
    Rank or office of a justice.
  • JUSTICIABLE
    Proper to be examined in courts of justice.
  • JUSTICIAR
    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. -High justicier. In old French and Canadian law. A feudal lord who exercised the right called More...
  • JUSTICIARII ITINERANTES
    In English law. Justices in eyre, who formerly went from county to county to administer justice. They were so called to distinguish them from justices residing at Westminister, who were called "justicii residentes" Co. Litt. 293.
  • JUSTICIARII RESIDENTES
    In English law. Justices or judges who usually resided In Westminister. They were so call' ed to distinguish them from justices in eyre. Co. Litt. 293.
  • JUSTICIARY
    An old name for a judge or justice. The word is formed on the analogy of the Latin "justiciarius" and French "justiciar."
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