Justification
in bookbinding, attention to keeping the matter of pages in exact register or correspondence, to secure even margins. In law, the bringing forward in court of a sufficient reason why a defendant did what he is called on to answer; such a plea must set forward some special matter. In JUSTIN II., a Byzantine emperor; nephew and successor (565) of Justinian I. He caused his cousin Justinus to be strangled. He made war against Chosroes, King of Persia, who was obliged to sue for peace. Justin II. married Sophia, niece of Theodora, wife of the Emperor Justinianus, a woman of high spirit, who, taking advantage of her husband's weakness, governed the empire in conjunction with Tiberius. He died Oct. 5, 578.