[PAR] [TLE] Fiat justitia ruat caelum [SEP] Fiat justitia ruat cælum is a Latin legal phrase, meaning ""Let justice be done though the heavens fall.""  The maxim signifies the belief that justice must be realized regardless of consequences.  According to the 19th-century abolitionist politician Charles Sumner, it does not come from any classical source.  It has also been ascribed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, see .  It was used in the landmark judgment, "Somerset v Stewart", where slavery was held to be unlawful at common law. [PAR] [TLE] Somerset v Stewart [SEP] Somerset v Stewart (1772) 98 ER 499 (aka "Somersett's case", or in State Trials v.XX "Sommersett v Steuart") is a famous judgment of the English Court of King's Bench in 1772, which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales, although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous.  Lord Mansfield decided that:
[PAR] [TLE] Fiat justitia ruat caelum [ SEP ] Fiat justitia ruat cælum is a Latin legal phrase , meaning " " Let justice be done though the heavens fall . " " The maxim signifies the belief that justice must be realized regardless of consequences . According to the 19th - century abolitionist politician Charles Sumner , it does not come from any classical source . It has also been ascribed to Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus , see . It was used in the landmark judgment , " Somerset v Stewart " , where slavery was held to be unlawful at common law . [PAR] [TLE] Somerset v Stewart [ SEP ] Somerset v Stewart ( 1772 ) 98 ER 499 ( aka " Somersett 's case " , or in State Trials v . XX " Sommersett v Steuart " ) is a famous judgment of the English Court of King 's Bench in 1772 , which held that chattel slavery was unsupported by the common law in England and Wales , although the position elsewhere in the British Empire was left ambiguous . Lord Mansfield decided that :
What court case used the latin phrase Fiat justitia ruat caelum to declare chattel slavery was unsupported by common law in England and Wales?
What court case used the latin phrase Fiat justitia ruat caelum to declare chattel slavery was unsupported by common law in England and Wales ?
Somerset v Stewart
Somerset v Stewart