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Definition of Justifying

1. justify [v] - See also: justify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Justifying

Literary usage of Justifying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chitty's Treatise on Pleading and Parties to Actions: With Second and Third by Joseph Chitty, Henry Greening (1844)
"See plea justifying killing dog in a warren, because it was pursuing the ... In a plea justifying killing a dog, because it attacked defendant and vas ..."

2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Circumstances justifying discrimination.—The difficulty of determining what are substantially similar circumstances and conditions appears from the ..."

3. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Circumstances justifying discrimination.—The difficulty of determining what are substantially similar circumstances and conditions appears from the ..."

4. Wrongs and Their Remedies: A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Francis Stafford Pipe Wolferstan, James M. Dudley, Edwin Baylies (1876)
"287 Pleas justifying the fouling of the water of a stream under a prescriptive ... 388 Pleas justifying the obstruction of a watercourse, on the ground that ..."

5. A Treatise on the American Law Relating to Mines and Mineral Lands Within by Curtis Holbrook Lindley (1897)
"Circumstances justifying change of boundaries. § 397. Privilege of changing boundaries exists in the absence of intervening rights, independent of state ..."

6. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"Circumstances justifying discrimination.—The difficulty of determining what are substantially similar circumstances and conditions appears from the ..."

7. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private by Rufus King (1896)
"... inclosing Dispatch from Liston and an Article from Pickering to Peter Porcupine justifying the Conduct of the American Commissioners—Requires King not ..."

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