different between justice vs puisne

English

Etymology

From Middle English justice, from Old French justise, justice (Modern French justice), from Latin i?stitia (“righteousness, equity”), from i?stus (“just”), from i?s (“right”), from Proto-Italic *jowos, perhaps literally "sacred formula", a word peculiar to Latin (not general Italic) that originated in the religious cults, from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-. Doublet of Justitia.

Displaced native Middle English rightwished, rightwisnes (“justice”) (from Old English rihtw?snes (“justice, righteousness”), compare Old English ?erihte (“justice”)).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?d??st?s/
• Hyphenation: jus?tice

Noun

justice (countable and uncountable, plural justices)

1. The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
2. The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.

3. Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.

4. The civil power dealing with law.

5. A title given to judges of certain courts; capitalized when placed before a name.

6. Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.

Synonyms

• (judge of various lower courts): See judge
• (judge of a superior court): justiciar, justiciary

Antonyms

• injustice

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• fairness

Further reading

• justice on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin i?stitia, j?stitia. Doublet of justesse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ys.tis/

Noun

justice f (plural justices)

1. justice

Derived terms

Related terms

• juste

References

• “justice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Further reading

• “justice” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Etymology

From Old French justise, justice, borrowed from Latin i?stitia, j?stitia (“righteousness, equity”), from i?stus (“just”), from i?s (“right”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?yew-.

Noun

justice f (plural justices)

1. (Jersey) justice

Old French

Noun

justice f (oblique plural justices, nominative singular justice, nominative plural justices)

1. Alternative form of justise

English

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman puisne, pusné et al., Middle French puisné (“younger; more recent”), from puis (“afterwards”) + né (“born”). Compare puny.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pju?.ni/
• Homophone: puny

Adjective

puisne (comparative more puisne, superlative most puisne)

1. (obsolete) Younger; junior. [16th–19th c.]
2. (obsolete) Insignificant, petty; ineffectual. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a pui?ne a discovery

   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 217:

     But this intrigue of the ancient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed, affects to disbelieve. As she does also some puisne gallantries of her foolish brother […] .

3. (law) Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior. [from 17th c.]

   the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer

4. (now law) Coming later in time; subsequent, secondary. [from 17th c.]
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     a puisne date to eternity

Usage notes

• The legal term is now used almost exclusively in common law jurisdictions such as England, Australia, Canada, Sri Lanka, and formerly in Hong Kong. The equivalent term in the United States is associate justice.

Anagrams

• punies, supine