## Meanings
1. Fair treatment of people, especially by the law.
2. The system of law and the way it punishes wrongdoing.
3. A judge in a high court (used as a title).

## Examples
- They marched in the streets demanding justice for the victims.
- The criminals were finally brought to justice.
- Mr Justice Krever presides over the appellate court.

## Antonyms
- injustice

## Derived Forms
- cyberjustice
- e-justice
- ecojustice
- justice-involved
- justice-like
- justiceable
- justiceless
- justicement
- justicer
- justiceship
- misjustice
- telejustice

## Related Forms
- fairness
- just
- justiciable
- justiciar
- unjust

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *h₂yew-
- Root: justice
- Root: justise
- Root: iūstitia
- Root: *jowos

## Etymology
From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Doublet of Justitia. Partly displaced native Old English rihtwīsnes (Modern English righteousness < rightwiseness).

## AI Etymology
Justice comes from Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin iūstitia (“righteousness, equity”), from iūstus (“just”), from iūs (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yew-. Doublet of Justitia. Partly displaced native Old English rihtwīsnes (Modern English righteousness < rightwiseness).

## Topics
- Crime & Justice
- Social Issues & Human Rights

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