Fiat justitia ruat caelum adalah frasa hukum dalam bahasa Latin yang bermakna "Keadilan harus ditegakkan meskipun langit runtuh." Maksim ini menandakan keyakinan bahwa keadilan harus ditegakkan apapun konsekuensinya.
Kalimat ini diyakini diucapkan oleh Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (43 SM) Konsep ini dikutip dalam Somerset v Stewart.[1] Namum menurut Charles Summer, politisi abolisionis abad ke-19 bahwa frasa ini tidak berasal dari sumber klasik manapun.[2]
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sunting- ^ Somerset v Stewart, 98 ER , 499 .
- ^ "The Position and Duties of the Merchant: Address Before the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, Nov. 13, 1854". The Works of Charles Sumner. Vol. III. Boston: Lee and Shephard. 1875. hlm. 507.
Of these, the first is expressed in these simple words: "If the parties will have judgment, fiat justitia, ruat coelum: let justice be done, whatever be the consequence." The Latin phrase which here plays such a prominent part, though of classical stamp, cannot be traced to any classical origin, and it has even been asserted that it was freshly coined by Lord Mansfield on this occasion, worth of such commanding truth in such commanding phrase. But it is of older date, and from another mint,—though it is not too much to say, that it took its currency and authority from him. Coming from such a conservative magistrate, it is of peculiar importance. With little expansion, it says openly: To every man his natural rights; justice to all, without distinction of person, without adbridgment, and without compromise. Let justice be done, though it drags down the pillars of the sky. Thus spoke the Chief Justice of England.
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