absolute justice
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabsoluteandjustice
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absolute
adjective
uk/ˈæb.sə.luːt/us/ˈæb.sə.luːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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justice
noun
uk/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/us/ˈdʒʌs.tɪs/
fairness in the way people are ...
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(Definition ofabsoluteandjusticefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Accordingly, there are two forms ofabsolutejustice: absolute distributive justice and absolute corrective justice.
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If courts enforceabsolutejusticerather than legal justice, then there is no right to legal justice.
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In these areas, judges should be replaced by arbitrators who are to rely on their sense ofabsolutejustice.
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Note that this does not mean that judges have the power to interpret statutes in the light ofabsolutejustice.
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Equity fills the gap between legal justice andabsolutejustice.
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Absolutejusticewill never be achieved.
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There is noabsolutejusticein the world; nor have wrongs which have been effected in the past all been righted.
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A scheme so complex and comprehensive as this one cannot be founded uponabsolutejustice.
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That should not in the least be incompatible withabsolutejusticeto the private soldier.
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We are asking for a matter ofabsolutejustice.
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The onlyabsolutejusticein this matter would be if no books were ever published or bought.
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We shall not achieveabsolutejustice.
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That surely givesabsolutejusticeto both sides.
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We have decided to accept this principle, and therefore it behoves us to see thatabsolutejusticeis done.
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But the real point is that we cannot proceed on lines ofabsolutejusticein this matter.
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So far as we were concerned, it was fairly rough justice, but rough justice at once is better thanabsolutejusticetoo late.
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Of course this is less thanabsolutejusticeand of course it is unpleasant and uncomfortable.
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I do not believe that it is possible to provideabsolutejustice.
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It would not beabsolutejustice.
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