(law, derogatory) A pragmatic approach to justice that is entirely discretionary and transcends legal rights or precedent, enabling the court to make such order as it thinks fair and just in the circumstances of the case.

(US, law) A person who is convicted or accused of a crime and who flees from law enforcement and runs across state lines to evade arrest.

(history) A special parliamentary session headed by the king in pre-Revolutionary France, where royal edicts could be forcibly registered.

plural of lit de justice

plural of social justice warrior

(neologism, derogatory, politics) A person who zealously promotes causes he or she believes to be matters of social justice, often for personal validation.

A judicial body of the United Nations, established in 1945 to decide disputes brought by nations.

plural of huissier de justice

(law) An officer of the court in several European countries who serves processes and notices, seizes and auctions off property, and executes garnishments, levies, and evictions, roughly similar to British bailiffs or private constables in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

plural of fugitive from justice