Fiat

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.

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, Pr. 100.

(Lat "Let it.be done.") 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 lord chancellor, addressed to the court of bankruptcy, authorizing the petitioning creditor to prosecute his complaint before it. 2 Steph. Comm. 199. By the statute 12 & 13 Viet. c. 116, fiats were abolished.

— 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, "Fiat jusMia," and then the writ of error is made out, etc. Jacob.

— Fiat ut petitur. Let it be done as it is asked. A form of granting a petition.

— Joint fiat. 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.

I. Let it be done. Fiat appellnm per verba appellnm facientia: the appeal must be made by words of appeal. Fiat seysina per fnstimetperbaculnm: seisin should be made by rod and staff. Fiat prout fieri consuevit (nil temere novandum): let it be done as it hath used to be done (nothing must be rashly innovated).

In English law. A short order or warrant of a judge, commanding or authorizing something to be done. Fiat In bankruptcy: a power signed by the Lord Chancellor addressed to the court of bankruptcy authorizing the petitioning creditor to prosecute his complaint. Fiat jnstitia: let justice be done, — words formerly written by the king at the top of a petition for a warrant to bring a writ of error in parliament, signifying his assent Fiat nt petitur: let it be, as is demanded.

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-

See Fieri.

/. (Let it be done.) A short order or warrant. Fiat in bankruptcy: an order of the Lord Chancellor that a commission in bankruptcy should issue; v. Commission, 2. Fiat justitia, ruat ccelum: let there be justice, though the heavens. fall. Fiat ut petitur: let it be, as is demanded.

in practice, is an order of a judge, or of an officer, whose authority to be signified by his signature, is necessary to authenticate the particular acts.