Legal Definition and Related Resources of Fiat
Meaning of Fiat
A decree ; an authority issuing from some competent source for the doing of some legal act. The word in Latin means let it be done and in English law refers to a short order or warrant of some judge or public officer making out and allowing certain processes.
Fiat Alternative Definition
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.
Synonyms of Fiat
noun
- authoritative order
- authorization
- command
- decree
- decree having the force of law
- dictate
- direction
- directive
- edict
- enactment
- hest
- imperium
- imposition
- injunction
- instruction
- iussum
- judgment
- mandamus
- mandatum
- order
- prescript
- prescription
- pronouncement
- regulation
- rescript
- rule
- sanction
- ukase
- warrant
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Fiat in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
Let it be done. An order or allowance by a judge or court.
Note: This legal definition of Fiat in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
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Concept of “Fiat”
Traditional meaning of fiat in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) (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; see COMMISSION, 2. Fiat justitia, ruat coelum: let there be justice, though the heavens fall. Fiat ut petitur: let it be, as is demanded.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Fiat”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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