Necessitas Vincit Legem

Necessity overcomes the law. Hob. 144. NECESSITAS VINCIT LEGEM; LEGUM vincula irrldet. Necessity overcomes law; it derides the fetters of law. Hob. 144. NECESSITY (Lat. necessitas). Irresistible power; compulsive force, physical or moral. Webster. The influence or operation of superior power or irresistible force; the influence of a cause which cannot be avoided nor controlled. A constraint upon the will, whereby a man is urged to do that which his judgment disapproves, and which, it is to be presumed, his will (if left to itself) would reject. It is highly just and equitable, therefore, that a man should be excused for those acts which are done through unavoidable force and compulsion. 4 Bl. Comm. 27.