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

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

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