FIAT JUSTITIA

fiat justitia (fI-at j<<schwa>>s-tish-ee-<<schwa>>). [Latin] Hist. Let justice be done. • This

phrase signaled the Crown’s commission to the House of Lords to hear an appeal.

“Fiat Justitia, ruat coelum, says another maxim, as full of extravagance as it is of harmony:

Go heaven to wreck — so justice be but done: — and what is the ruin of kingdoms, in comparison

of the wreck of heaven?” Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and

Legislation 13–14 n.1 (1823)[Blacks Law 8th]