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Necessitas cnlpabilis

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Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Culpable necessity; unfortunate necessity; necessity which, while it excuses the act done under its compulsion, does not leave the doer entirely free from blame. The necessity which compels a man to kill another in self-defense is thus distinguished from that which requires the killing of a felon. See 4J Bl. Comm. 187.

Defined under Necessitas in Black's Law Dictionary.