Fiat
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In English practice. A short order or warrant of a judge or magistrate directing some act to be done; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. One of the proceedings in the English bankrupt practice, being a power, signed by the lor) chancellor, addressed to the court of bankruptey, authorizing the petitioning creditor to prosecute his complaint before it.
2 Steph. Comm. 199.
By the statute 12 & 13 Vict. c. 116, fiats were abolished. Fiat jus, ruat justitia. Let law prevail, though justice fail. y FIAT JUSTITIA.
Let justice be done
On a petition to the king for his warrant to bring a writ of error in parliament, he writes on the top of the petition, “iat justitia,” and then the writ ot error is made out, etc, Jueob, Fiat justitia, ruat ecslum. Let right be done, though the heavens should fall. Fiat prout fieri consuevit, (nil temere novandum.) Let it be done as it bath used to be done, (nothing must be rashly innovat-