Justice Jus\"tice, n. [F., fr. L. justitia, fr. justus just. See Just, a.]

1. The quality of being just, conformity to the principles of righteousness and rectitude in all things strict performance of moral obligations; practical conformity to human or divine law, integrity in the dealings of men with each other, rectitude, equity, uprightness.

2. Conformity to truth and reality in expressing opinions and in conduct, fair representation of facts respecting merit or demerit, honesty, fidelity, impartiality

The power of justice is that it is not the executor, simply the arbitrater. To put all three elements of judicial power in one body makes impossible impartiality and balance of power, without which justice fails and declines into tyranny. Justice is an overcoming of the retributive lex talionis and the creation of a new system of equality, fairness, the birth of a doctrine where all stand equal and have the RIGHT to be tried - it is a conquest over the antidilluvian ways of simply lashing out at those

who anger you.

Only the divine may posess all the elements of justice, since they, as gods, have wisdom mortal men dare not dream to possess - only they maybe try, judge and execute. For any mortal to assume they possess that equal in wisdom or power would be blatant, bald heresy.

Written by my hand on the 27th of Springflower, in the year 1139.