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justice
Etymology: L, justus, sufficient
1 a principle of fair and equal treatment for all, with due reward and honor.
2 (in research) equitable distribution of benefits and burdens of research.
3 treating people in a nonprejudicial manner.

justice,
n principle of medical ethics according to which a person treats another person with fairness in both medical and nonmedical settings.

justice,
n the constant and perpetual disposition to render every person his or her due. Also, the conformity of one's actions and will to the law.


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Some of these works are important background reading as Cambodia finally moves toward the endgame in bringing to justice the surviving Khmer Rouge leaders.
When terrorists assaulted America on 9/11, killing nearly 3,000 innocent civilians, President Bush responded, not by focusing on bringing to justice the criminals who were responsible, but by initiating a war against impoverished, defenseless Afghanistan, a broad attack that killed at least 3,000 innocent people.
McKillop, 40, was credited with leading a team of 15 investigators in bringing to justice the self-proclaimed ``Angel of Death,'' Efren Saldivar, a former respiratory therapist who worked at Glendale Adventist Hospital.
 
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