Necessitas
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
QUOD COGIT, DEFENDIT. Necessity defends what it compels.
Hale, P. C. 54.
NECESSITAS SUB LEGE NON CONTInetur,.quia quod alias non est licitum necessitas facit licitum. Necessity is not restrained by law; since what otherwise is not lawful, necessity makes lawful.
2 Inst. 326, Fleta, lib. 5, c. 23, § 14.