Justification in Europe
Definition of Justification
(1) The plea in defence of an action which admits the allegations of the plaintiff but pleads that they were justifiable or lawful. For example, in libel a plea of justification admits the publication of the defamatory words, but pleads that they are true in substance and in fact. And see Homicide
(2) In procedure, bail or sureties for the defendant in an action were said to justify when they satisfied the plaintiff or the Court that they were sufficient
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Definition of Justification is, temporally, from A Concise Law Dictionary (1927). This page needs to be proofread.
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