Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus

The Fiat justitia et pereat latin phrase is usually translated mundus It shall be done justice, and go about the world based on (or meaning).

Luther translates it: It happens, what is right, and shalt pass the world drob. ( Sermon of 10 May 1535),

Kant: The reign of justice, the rogues in the world like a total mind also perish.

The first attestation of this sense is Pope Adrian VI. (1459-1523) borrowed. The significance of the sentence as a motto of Emperor Ferdinand I ( 1503-1564 ). He handed and characterized an attitude that wants to give right at any cost. In this meaning, the sentence is understood today mostly, that is, as a maxim that takes for the sake of justice itself doomsday in purchasing.

The sentence is ironic quotes in the sense to criticize a legal opinion and legal practice, which is the preservation of the legal principles at any cost, even to the detriment of the Company to enforce willing.

King Frederick William I wrote in Prussia, when he converted the milder judgment in Katte process in a death sentence: he was " gone through the school and ( have ) learned the proverb. Fiat justitia aut pereat mundus " This reverses the word into contrary to that if no justice is done, the world will end.

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