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These 8 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Justiciary Court, Justifiable Homicide, Justification.

Justices (LORDS in Great Britain)

LORDS, in Great Britain, appointed by the sovpersons formerly as his substitute ereign to act for a time , either of the in the supreme government a part of it. The whole kingdom or of Ireland is a familiar lord-lieutenant of . The title example of a lord-justice is in England lords-justices of appeal number of judges begiven to a certain division of the longing to the appeal . Supreme Court of Judicature

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Justiciary Court

the highest in Scotland. Its judges criminal court seven of the judges of the Court of are edicts against that sect. Hearing of the Session-viz., the lords president and and five others appointed justice-clerk, sits usually in Edinburgh, by patent. It himself in sackcloth, and passed several circuit courts twice a year but also holds in a number of towns, four times at Dundee, and Aberdeen, and six He died Aug. 1 Perth, being times in Glasgow, the kingdom by the same calamity purpose into three dividivided for that . The jurisdiction emsions or circuits ; and it is an braces all crimes whatever appellate court as regards inferior crim- . Its decisions are final, inal tribunals to the House of there being no appeal Lords.

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Justifiable Homicide

in law, in circumstances which render homicide for instance, it a justifiable act. When, criminal legally an executioner hangs a when no other way of condemned, or crime, say murpreventing an atrocious deed ceases to be der, is available, the homicide. murder and becomes justifiable

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Justification

in bookbinding, atof pages tention to keeping the matter correspondence, to in exact register or . In law, the bringsecure even margins of a sufficient reaing forward in court what he is son why a defendant did such a plea must called on to answer; special matter. In set forward some

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Justinian Code

a famous digest of the Roman law, compiled from the Gregorian, Theodorian, and Hermogenian codes, at the command of the Emperor Justinian I., by 10 of the ablest lawyers of his reign, under the guidance of the jurisconsult Tribonian . Their labors consisted (1) of the "Statute Law," or Justinian Code , properly so called; (2) the "Pandects," a digest of the decisions and opinions of former magistrates and lawyers-these two compilations consisted of matter that lay scattered through more than 2,000 volumes, now reduced to 50; (3 ) the "Institutes," an abridgment in four books, containing the substance of all the laws in an elementary form ; (4) the laws of modern date, including Justinian's own edicts, col- "New Code." These labors, which lected into one volume, and called the Cæsar had not been able to accomplish, were completed by the year 541. a Corchorus capsularis, a plant belonging

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Jutes

a low German tribe that invaded Great Britain in the fifth century in company with the Saxons and Angles. It was supposed, as a matter of course, that they came from the peninsula of Jutland, now Denmark; but historical evidence goes to the contrary. At all events, they established themselves in Kent, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, and founded the kingdom of Kent.

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Juturna

the daughter of the Gerhad the power of strewn with Daunus, changed by Jupiter into a founthe British tain, whos whose waters had the power of port, taking restoring virginity. (jū've-nil) (DECIUS proved to be: LIS), & Roman poet JUVENAL (jū've-nal) (DECIUS probably in Aquinum, three armored JUNIUS JUVENALIS), a Roman poet . The Gerhe beginning of the and satirist; born probably in Aquinum, they had lost studied rhetoric Campania, about the beginning of the cruiser, four sters, and reign of Claudius. He studied rhetoric eminent under the most celebrated masters, and eminent ships lost as a poetical an acknowlis said to have become the player pleader. His first essay as a poetical of the loss of men satirist was directed against the player of the That of the been sent Paris, and for repeated attacks e by being same kind he is said to have been sent at Pentinto an honorable kind of exile, by being capital ships in his Two British made commander of a cohort at Pentto have Arbuthnot, apolis, on the borders of Egypt, in his to . Two ad ats, and 80th year. Juvenal may be said have ator of Hipper and the been the last of the Roman poets, and castigator of their flags in Sixtoen vice he stands without a rival. Sixteen as the bold and unflinching von Hipper of his satires are extant. the " Moltke, " ww Courts e " to the ely and in a

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Juventas

a Roman godtobiograph dess, who presided over youth and vigor. a Roman She is the same as the Hebe of outh and Greeks, and was represented as a beaue Hebe tiful nymph in variegated garments. nted as a

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