JUSTIFICATION

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JUSTIFICATION , in law, the showing by a

defendant

DEFENDANT

in a suit of sufficient reason why he did what he was called upon to

answer

ANSWER (derived from and, against, and the same
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
as swear)

,
For example, in an

action

ACTION

for assault and battery, the

defendant

DEFENDANT

may prove in justification that the prosecutor assaulted or

beat

BEAT (a word common in various forms to the
Teutonic
- TEUTONIC
- TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES
languages; it is connected with the similar Romanic words derived from the Late Lat. battere)

him first, and that he acted merely in self-

defence

DEFENCE
DEFENCE (Lat. defendere, to defend)

. The word is employed particularly in actions for

defamation

DEFAMATION (from the classical Lat. diffamare, to spread abroad an evil report—the English form in de is taken from the Late Lat. defamare)

, and has in this connexion a somewhat

special

SPECIAL

meaning. When a libel consists of a specific charge a plea of justification is a plea that the words are true in substance and in fact (see LIBEL AND

SLANDER

SLANDER

).

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