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JUSTIFICATION

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 596 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JUSTIFICATION  , in

law, the showing by a
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defendant in a suit of sufficient reason why he did what he was called upon to answer, For example, in an
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action for assault and battery, the defendant may prove in justification that the prosecutor assaulted or beat him first, and that he acted merely in self-defence . The word is employed particularly in actions for defamation, and has in this connexion a somewhat
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special meaning . When a
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libel consists of a specific charge a plea of justification is a plea that the words are true in substance and in fact (see LIBEL AND
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SLANDER) .

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