justĭtĭum (noun N) : 2. jus-sisto
* 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.
* 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.