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However, the phrase Fiat justitia ruat caelum does not appear in De Ira; [8] and, in fact, Seneca used the story as an example of anger leading people to ignore right and do wrong, as Piso's decisions trampled on several legal principles, particularly that of Corpus delicti, which states that a person cannot be convicted of a crime unless it ...
Fiat Justitia is the motto of Britain's Royal Air Force Police as well as the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Fiat Justitia also appears as the motto of Nuffield College, Oxford , and the Sri Lanka law college, and is also found in the Holy Bible on the crest of St. Sylvester's College , Kandy, Sri Lanka.
fiat lux: let there be light: from the Genesis, "dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux" ("and God said: 'Let there be light', and there was light."); frequently used as the motto of schools. fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum: be it done to me according to thy word: Virgin Mary's response to the Annunciation: fiat panis: let there be bread
Legal principle that a person who is not present is unlikely to inherit. absente reo (abs. re.) [with] the defendant being absent: Legal phrase denoting action "in the absence of the accused". absit iniuria: absent from injury: i.e., "no offense", meaning to wish that no insult or injury be presumed or done by the speaker's words.
law in the event: A law that only concerns one particular case. See law of the case. lex lata: the law that has been borne: The law as it is. lex loci: law of the place: lex non scripta: law that has not been written: Unwritten law, or common law: lex orandi, lex credendi: the law of prayer is the law of faith: lex paciferat: the law shall ...
He extended the meaning of the Monroe Doctrine, which had previously stated merely that the Western Hemisphere was closed to additional European colonization: "Today the United States is practically sovereign on this continent and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition...
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus is a Latin phrase, meaning "Let justice be done, and the world perish". [ 1 ] This sentence was the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (1556–1564), [ 2 ] who used it as his slogan, and it became an important rule to control the nation. [ 3 ]
Words and Phrases Legally Defined is a law dictionary. It contains statutory and judicial definitions of words and phrases. It is one of the two "major" dictionaries of its type (the other being Stroud's). Both dictionaries have entries not contained in the other. [1] This dictionary is "useful". [2]