Fiat

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

fiat
Consent (by the Attorney-General) to start proceedings on behalf of someone else for review of an administrative act (q.v.).
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Fiat
Definition - Noun
1 : See also decree
2 : an authoritative but arbitrary order <a brazen act of judicial ~ ­L. H. Tribe>
Pronunciation'fE-"ät, -"at, -&t; 'fI-"at ...

Related Terms: Fiat Justitia Ruat Caelum, Civil Law
Roman law is the source of modern civil law.

In this address, Lincoln sought to reassure the southern states that they would continue to be governed by law rather than fiat.

Compare Facere. In fieri. In the course of being done; not yet completed. Opposed, in esse. Fiat. Let it be done. An order or allowance by a judge or court. Fiat justitia. Let justice be done.

regards letters patent for inventions, which are revoked by a special procedure, regulated by § 26 of the Patents Act 1883), by the procedure known as scire facias, an action brought against the patentee in the name of the crown with the fiat of ...

See also: Law, State, Order, Were, Count