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Statue of Lady Justice blindfolded and holding a balance and a sword, outside the Court of Final Appeal, Hong Kong. Lady Justice (Latin: Iustitia) is an allegorical personification of the moral force in judicial systems. [1] [2] Her attributes are scales, a sword and sometimes a blindfold. She often appears as a pair with Prudentia.
The portrait-format painting shows a statue of Justitia, or Lady Justice, on a base, which also forms the cornerstone of a stair railing.The statue facing the viewer, which is located in the left half and in the upper half of the picture, has the usual attributes of personified justice with the blindfold and the scales, in the left hand, the sword in the right hand and the classic long robe.
An industrial weighing scale is a device that measures the weight or mass of objects in various industries. It can range from small bench scales to large weighbridges, and it can have different features and capacities. Industrial weighing scales are used for quality control, inventory management, and trade purposes.
The woman is holding a pair of scales, as a symbol of justice, but her eyes are closed—a reference to the traditional depiction of Lady Justice wearing a blindfold, but also a suggestion that justice is degenerating into a self-righteous unwillingness to see an obvious injustice.
Scales of justice (symbol), scales held by Lady Justice symbolizing the measure of a case's support and opposition; Scales of Justice, a 1983 Australian television drama "Scales of Justice", a song by Avantasia from the 2010 album The Wicked Symphony; Scales of Justice, a novel by New Zealand writer Ngaio Marsh featuring her character Inspector ...
English: Vector graphic image of scales of justice and a wreath اردو: ویکٹر تصویر انصاف کے ترازو اور ایک پھولوں کی چادر کی Español: Imagen gráfica vectorial de escalas de justicia y una corona
She became the inspiration for modern depictions of Lady Justice. The ruling planet of Libra is Venus along with Taurus. [5] Libra is the only zodiac sign that is represented by an object; the other eleven signs are represented by either an animal or a mythological character though some depictions feature a man holding the scales with his hands ...
These included the figure of Lady Justice on the dome of the Old Bailey plus figures for the entrance to the court, statuettes, lamp standards and other decorations for the Liverpool Museum and Technical College, work for Lancaster Town Hall and a series of low-relief panels on gin-making for the exterior of Booth's Distillery in central London.