he could not charge a suspect with murder because he lacked physical, demonstrative and testimonial evidence to establish that the missing individual has indeed died (the physical body of the deceased being the most important of these absences). Piso was put to trial a short time after this episode, accused of a long list of crimes, and committed suicide. Among the charges brought against him was summary judgment, the crime of sentencing a suspect with undue haste and without proper investigation, thus ignoring the legal procedures of justice. The phrase is sometimes attributed to a different Piso, Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, possibly a confusion with this case. Modern origins The exact phrase as used for approval of justice at all cost—usually seen in a positive sense—appears to originate in modern jurisprudence. In English law, William Watson in "Ten Quodlibetical Quotations Concerning Religion and State" (1601) "You go against that general maxim in the laws, which is 'Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. This is its first known appearance in English literature. The maxim was used by William Prynne in "Fresh Discovery of Prodigious Wandering New-Blazing Stars" (1646), by Nathaniel Ward in "Simple Cobbler of Agawam" (1647), and frequently thereafter, but it was given its widest celebrity by William Murray, 1st Baron Mansfield's decision on 8 June 1768, on the case concerning the outlawry of John Wilkes (and not, as is commonly believed, in Somerset v Stewart, the 1772 case concerning the legality of slavery in England).<ref name="RvWilkes">{{cite web |title= R v. Wilkes, (1768) 4 Burr 2527, 2562, 98 E.R. 327 (347) |url=http://www.commonlii.org/uk/cases/EngR/1770/34.pdf |accessdate= 10 January 2022}}</ref> Another famous eighteenth-century usage appears in David Hume's 1748 essay "Of Passive Obedience". Hume rejects it as false, although he argues that justice must in extraordinary cases of necessity be sacrificed to the public interest. In 1860 this maxim was placed on the flag of the Alamo City Guards Texas Militia. The maxim is given in various forms: Fiat justitia, ruat cœlum/coelum/cælum/caelum (spellings) Fiat justitia et ruant coeli (Watson) Fiat justitia et coelum ruat (John Manningham, Diary, 11 April 1603) Fiat justitia, ruat coelum (Lord Mansfield) Famous modern uses In British India, this phrase was used by Sir S. Subramania Iyer during a case ("Tirupati (or Tirupathi) Mahant case") in Madras High Court. It was a case regarding religious faith versus the law, where a Hindu Temple administrator (called the 'mahant') was accused by the