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Fiat - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Fiat : (noun)
1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court
record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in
New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out
there" [syn: decree, edict, order, rescript]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Fiat : \Fi"at\, n. [L., let it be done, 3d pers. sing., subj.
pres., fr. fieri, used as pass. of facere to make. Cf. Be.]
1. An authoritative command or order to do something; an
effectual decree.
His fiat laid the corner stone. --Willis.
2. (Eng. Law)
(a) A warrant of a judge for certain processes.
(b) An authority for certain proceedings given by the Lord
Chancellor's signature.
Fiat money, irredeemable paper currency, not resting on a
specie basis, but deriving its purchasing power from the
declaratory fiat of the government issuing it.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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