Necessitas

Necessity

Necessitas publica major est quam privata. Public necessity is greater than private. A private right or necessity must yield to the public good; as in the exercise of the powers of eminent domain and taxation.* Necessitas vincit legem. Necessity overcomes law, — is paramount to any rule of law. See Necessity. Trinoda necessitas. A threefold necessity or burden. In England, anciently, when lands were granted free of services, they were still subject by implication, under a certain trinoda necessitas, to the expense of repairing bridges and forts, and of repelling invasions.^