a moral sense, is one of the four cardinal virtues, which consists in giving every person his due.

Civilians distinguish justice into two kinds, communicative and distributive. The former establishes fair dealing in the mutual commerce between man and man, and includes sincerity in our discourse, as well as integrity in our dealings. Distributive justice is that by which the differences of mankind are decided according to the rules of equity. The former is the justice of private individuals, the latter that of princes and magistrates.

Justice is also an appellation given to a person deputed by the king to administer justice to his subjects, and whose authority arises from his deputation, and not by right of magistracy.