Joint fiat
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
In English law
A fiat in bankruptcy, issued against two or more trading partners. Fiat justitia, ruat cœlumLet right be done, though the heavens should fall. Fiat prout fieri consuevit, (nil temere novandum.) Let it be done as it hath used to be done, (nothing must be rashly innovated.) Jenk. Cont 116, case 39 ; Branch, Princ.