Fiat
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
An order of a judge or of an officer whose authority, to be signified by his signature, is necessary to authenticate the particular acts. A short order or warrant of the judge, commanding that something shall be done.
See 1 Tidd, Prac. 100, 108.
FIAT IN BANKRUPTCr. An order of the lord chancellor that a commission of bankruptcy shall issue.
1 Deac. Bankr. 106.
Fiats were abolished by 12 & 13 Vict. c.
116.