Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus
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“ Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus” is a Latin phrase. It means: “Let there be justice, though the world perish.” Analogous: “May justice happen, even if the world decays.”. It was the motto of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor[1][2][3] and it characterizes an attitude, which wants to provide justice at any price.
Nowadays the phrase is cited ironically in order to criticize a legal opinion or law practice, which wants to conserve law maxims at any price even if this means social damage. [4]
The phrase is not from the Romans. The Roman legal opinion and the Roman law practice was led from the law maxim “Cui bono”.
[edit] See also
- Fiat justitia ruat caelum, a similar phrase with a considerably different meaning
[edit] References
- ^ (in German I)
- ^ (in German II)
- ^ (in German III)
- ^ “Reclams Lateinisches Zitaten-Lexikon”, Author: Muriel Kasper, page 108, Reclam, ISBN 3-15-010478-5
