justification

Definition 1

Defendant's lawful or sufficient reason for having acted (or having failed to act) what he or she is charged with. In a defamation case, the truthfulness of a defamatory statement is a sufficient justification to have made it.

Definition 2

Manner of spacing words on a column or page so the rows are aligned in a specified way.


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