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Distributive justice, 'distributive justice' is the prototype of justice. In it we have found the idea of justice, towards which the concept of law must be oriented.' Law offers and protects the conditions necessary for the life of man and his perfection. In the words of Cardozo, 'what we are seeking is not merely the justice that one receives when his rights and status are determined by the law as it is; what we are seeking is a justice to which law in its making should conform.' The sense of justice will be stable when it is firmly guided by the 'pragma' of objective and subjective interests, Gurbax Singh v. Financial Commissioner, AIR 1991 SC 435 (441): 1991 Supp (1) SCC 167.