Word Just - Indian Laws - General

Word Just As per Judicial Dictionary - K.J. Aiyer : Just. The term just is derived from the Latin word Justus. It has various meanings which are often governed by the context. Corpus Juris Secundum, Vol. 50, p. 1100 The word just may apply in nearly all of its senses, either to ethics of law, denoting something which is morally right and fair and sometimes that which is right and fair according to positive law. It can-notes reasonableness and something conforming to rectitude and justice, something equitable and fair. Words and Phrases , West Publishing Co, Vol. 23, p. 438, the true meaning of the word just states in these terms: the word just is derived from the Lain Justus which is from the Latin jus , which means a right and more technically, a legal right-a law. Thus jus dicere was to pronounce the judgment to give the legal decision. The word just is defined by the Century Dictionary as right in law or ethics , In Standard Dictionary as conforming to the requirements of right or of positive law , In Anderson s Law Dictionary as probable, reasonable . Kinneys s Law Dictionary defines the word just as fair, adequate, probable, reasonable , and justa causa as a just cause; lawful ground. (Bergman v. Kress 81 NYS 1072 (1073), 83 App. Div. 1). Proper. Natural; suitably; correct; just; right; becoming. The word is also used in the sense of own . The Law Lexicon - P. Ramanatha Aiyar: Just. As an adjective fair; adequate; reasonable; probable; right in accordance with law and justice; right in law or ethics; rightful, legitimate, well founded; comfortable to laws; conforming to the requirements of right or positive law; conformed to rules or principle of justice, 2 Bom. LR 845. As an adverb of time the word just is equivalent to at this moment or the least possible time since (Ame. Cyc.) JAGADESAN VERSUS STATE OF TAMIL NADU - 2015 (2) TMI 1404 - MADRAS HIGH COURT