[L., cessation from business in the courts of justice, legal vacation, f. jūs law, right + -stitium, f. ppl. stem of sistĕre to stand, stop.] A legal vacation.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xiii. 222. As though there were any seriation in nature or justitiums imaginable in professions, whose subject is naturall.
1691. Blount, Law Dict., Justitium, a ceasing from the Prosecution of Law and exercising Justice, in places Judicial: The Vacation.
1721. in Bailey; and in later Dicts.
