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  2. Justice - Wikipedia

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    In its broadest sense, justice is the idea that individuals should be treated fairly. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the most plausible candidate for a core definition comes from the Institutes of Justinian, a codification of Roman Law from the sixth century AD, where justice is defined as "the constant and perpetual will to render to each his due".

  3. List of Latin legal terms - Wikipedia

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    A contradiction where adjective contradicts its noun (e.g., a square triangle). contra proferentem: against the one bringing forth Used in contract law to stipulate that an ambiguous term in a contract shall be interpreted against the interests of the party that insisted upon the term's inclusion. Prevents the intentional additions of ambiguous ...

  4. Noun - Wikipedia

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    Concrete nouns refer to physical entities that can, in principle at least, be observed by at least one of the senses (chair, apple, Janet, atom), as items supposed to exist in the physical world. Abstract nouns, on the other hand, refer to abstract objects: ideas or concepts (justice, anger, solubility, duration).

  5. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

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    (noun) Something from which something else originates, develops, or takes form; [24] a mold or die; an electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records. [25] (noun in biology) The substance in which tissue cells are embedded. [26] (noun in math) The arrangement of a set of quantities in rows and columns. [27]

  6. Judge Advocate General's Corps - Wikipedia

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    Naval Justice School in Newport, Rhode Island. Air Force Judge Advocate General School at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama. Naval Justice School is the primary training center for Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard JAs. Most judge advocates will take additional classes at more than one of these facilities during their time in the JAG Corps.

  7. English nouns - Wikipedia

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    Proper nouns are a class of words such as December, Canada, Leah, and Johnson that occur within noun phrases (NPs) that are proper names, [2] though not all proper names contain proper nouns (e.g., General Electric is a proper name with no proper noun).

  8. Noun phrase - Wikipedia

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    In this conception a noun phrase is "the infinitive of the verb" (p. 146), which may appear "in any position in the sentence where a noun may appear". For example, to be just is more important than to be generous has two underlined infinitives which may be replaced by nouns, as in justice is more important than generosity.

  9. Court - Wikipedia

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    A trial at the Old Bailey in London as drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin for Microcosm of London (1808–11) The International Court of Justice. A court is an institution, often a government entity, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and administer justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law.