The phrase "assumed justice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing perceptions or beliefs about fairness or justice that are taken for granted or not explicitly stated.
Example: "In many societies, there is an assumed justice that underlies the legal system, even when it fails to protect the vulnerable."
Alternatives: "presumed fairness" or "implied justice".
But the (assumed) justice of the conviction can be explained satisfactorily neither by recourse to the principle of autonomy (as the victim consented to the beatings), nor to the principle of welfare (if this really was the best way to end the blight that alcoholism had become on Mrs Brown's life it would arguably enhance her welfare).
Tallcree appeared in court on July 8, the same day of Malena's funeral, and her family assumed justice was on it's way to being done.
"It naïvely assumes," Justice Johnson wrote, "that the government is capable of correctly and consistently negotiating the thin line between fact and opinion in political speech".
Assuming justice prevails most of the time, and that laws are most of the time applied and administered fairly, a lawyer cannot achieve for his or her client a result that is better than what justice allows.
Assuming Justice White's role as prophet of the obvious, Stevens cited his swan song: "There's nothing about what has happened that is inconsistent with what I suggest in my dissent might happen".
Opening the Floodgate When the court announced on the day after Thanksgiving that it would hear the first Bush appeal, surprising nearly all who had assumed the justices would do their best to stay away from a politically charged case that appeared completely grounded in state law, there was considerable speculation about what lay behind the decision.
It is corrosive of the core values of western civilisation for the chief Hague prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, now to say that Milosevic escaped justice by dying, for this assumes that "justice" means not due process but a guilty verdict.
For many theorists, justice is assumed to be 'retributive justice' (see the entry on retributive justice), though this assumption is one subject of dispute (Moellendorf 1997, Lenta 2000).
A damning judgment said it was "regrettable that Mr Juppé, whose intellectual qualities are unanimously recognised, did not judge it appropriate to assume before justice his entire criminal responsibility and kept on denying established facts".
Predictably, Cephalus and then Polemarchus fail to define justice in a way that survives Socratic examination, but they continue to assume that justice is a valuable part of a good human life.
If precise and safe control over the distribution of natural assets becomes feasible, then those who believe that justice is concerned with effects of natural assets on individuals' life prospects will no longer be able to assume that justice requires only that we compensate for bad luck in the natural lottery than attacking natural inequalities directly.
