plural of lit de justice

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

Uniform Code of Military Justice

(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.

(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 huissier de justice

plural of fugitive from justice

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

plural of social justice warrior

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