I.a cessation from business in the courts of justice, a legal vacation, Cic. Phil. 5, 12, 31: “justitium per aliquot dies servatum est,” Liv. 3, 5: “justitiumque in foro sua sponte coeptum prius quam indictum,” id. 9, 7: “prope justitium omnium rerum futurum videbatur,” id. 26, 26, 9: “remittere,” to put an end to a suspension of legal proceedings, to cause the courts to resume their business, id. 10, 21. —
II. In gen., a cessation of public business, a public mourning: “hos mors (Germanici) adeo incendit, ut, sumpto justitio, deserentur foro,” Tac. A. 2, 82: “arcis triste tyrannicae,” Prud. Cath. 5, 80; so, in a household, a suspension of business for mourning the dead, Sid. Ep. 2, 8.