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  • Justice begins at home : President Obama defends sexual rights... do you? / Positive Justice Project ; IPPF.
  • Justice begins at home : President Obama defends sexual rights... do you? / Positive Justice Project ; IPPF.
  • Summons issued by Justice of the Peace reg. a rabid dog
  • Portrait of Thomas Lord Denman, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Kings Bench.
  • Court sitting trying prisoners in the Justice Hall of Old Bailey. Engraving with etching.
  • Christ as man of sorrow between fate and justice. Engraving.
  • A woman with a sword and a balance; representing justice. Etching, 16--.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice opens an enquiry into its financing. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • Personifications of prudence and justice. Etching by S. Mulinari after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Innocence attacked from four corners by "Iudex", "Persequutiō", "Avaritia" and "Invidia"; Justice looks down from above. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A woman holding a sword and the scales of justice; representing jurisprudence. Engraving by E. Delaune, ca. 1560.
  • A solicitor and a barrister throw black paint or tar at a woman sitting at the feet of a statue of Justice. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1892.
  • A man kneeling in front of a judge at a Chinese court of justice. Wood engraving after E. Vaumort.
  • A female figure holding a pair of scales, resting her foot on a footstool; representing justice. Etching, c. 1736.
  • A woman bearing a sword and measuring scales; representing justice. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael.
  • Criminal soldiers are caught in their hiding places in woods and brought to justice. Etching after Jacques Callot, ca. 1633.
  • French revolutionary bank note of fifty sols, with allegorical figures of liberty and justice. Engraving by N.M. Gatteaux, 179-.
  • A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
  • The Panama Canal: the French Ministry of Justice discovers that the bank account of the company formed to build the canal is empty. Watercolour drawing by H.S. Robert, ca. 1897.
  • The fallibility of the senses: above, justice, fame and deceit; below, doctors conducting an autopsy on a cadaver, surrounded by onlookers. Engraving, 1692.
  • The archangel Michael, holding a flaming sword and the scales of justice; in heaven the angels kneel before Christ; representing the Day of Judgement. Woodcut.
  • The three theological virtues (Hope, Faith and Charity) are standing near an altar above which the Holy Spirit is hovering, while the the four cardinal virtues (Temperance, Justice, Fortitude and Wisdom) are sitting in the foreground. Engraving.
  • Sir John Fielding wearing a blindfold sits in a chair holding instruments of justice before Madam Cornelys on the shoulders of a lawyer and the Duchess of Northumberland. Engraving, 1771.
  • Justicia carnea Lindl. Acanthaceae. Brazilian Plume flower, Flamingo flower. Shrimp plant. Tender shrub. Distribution: Atlantic coast of Brazil. Named for James Justice (1698-1753) Scottish horticulturist, lawyer, 'tulip maniac' (Desmond, 1977). Asian species of Justicia are noted to be toxic and contain cytotoxic compounds which inhibit virus replication (Wiart, 2006) Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • Tom Idle and Francis Goodchild, once colleagues meet at a session of the court of justice; Idle is a pleading defendant while Goodchild wearing the furred robe and chain of an alderman is the acting magistrate. Engraving by Thomas Cook after William Hogarth.
  • A collection of modern relations of matter of fact, concerning witches & witchcraft upon the persons of people. To which is prefixed a meditation concerning the mercy of God, in preserving us from the malace and power of evil angels. Part I. / Written by the late Lord Chief Justice Hale, upon occasion of a tryal of several witches before him. [Anon].
  • A triumphal arch decorated with Papal, Christian, Imperial and Habsburgian emblems: in the centre Philip II of Spain, surrounded by emblems of peace, justice and plenty, receives the crown from his father, Charles V; representing the good and Christian reign of Philip II. Engraving by N. Nelli.
  • A skimmington or charivari: people make noise and are violent in the street as a form of rough justice exercised by women against men; on the right Hudibras enters on horseback, and is hit in the eye by a thrown egg. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem. Watercolour.
  • A Justicia plant: flowering stem and root. Watercolour.