Fiat
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
/. (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.