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  2. Doctrine of necessity - Wikipedia

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    The doctrine of necessity is the basis on which extraordinary actions by administrative authority, which are designed to restore order or uphold fundamental constitutional principles, are considered to be lawful even if such an action contravenes established constitution, laws, norms, or conventions.

  3. Necessity (criminal law) - Wikipedia

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    Emergency law/right (nødret, nødrett) is the equivalent of necessity in Denmark and Norway.[1] [2] It is considered related to but separate from self-defence.Common legal examples of necessity includes: breaking windows and other objects in order to escape a fire, commandeering a vehicle to serve as an emergency ambulance, ignoring traffic rules while rushing a dying patient to a hospital ...

  4. Necessity (tort) - Wikipedia

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    The constitutional provision is not limited to an improvement of property for public use. The doctrine of public necessity does not change our holding. Once a taking has been found to exist, compensation is required. If the public necessity doctrine were to apply to a situation like this, no taking would ever be found.

  5. Necessity in English criminal law - Wikipedia

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    When considering necessity in R v Cole (1994) Crim. LR 582 Simon Brown LJ. held that the peril relied on to support the plea of necessity lacked imminence and the degree of directness and immediacy required of the link between the suggested peril and the offence charged. This defendant robbed two building societies in order to repay debts.

  6. State of necessity - Wikipedia

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    Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... A state of necessity may refer to: Canon 1324; Doctrine of necessity; Military necessity ; Necessity (criminal law

  7. R v Dudley and Stephens - Wikipedia

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    Smith, J. C. (Prof. Sir) (1989), "Chapter 3: Necessity and Duress", Justification and Excuse in the Criminal Law (Hamlyn Lecture Series), England: Sweet & Maxwell, ISBN 978-0420478207 asserting that the law would not consider the act of removing a blocker of an escape ladder, as occurred in the MS Herald of Free Enterprise, murder; nor a ...

  8. Competing harms - Wikipedia

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    Competing harms, also known as necessity defense or lesser harm, is a legal doctrine in certain U.S. states, particularly in New England.For example, the Maine Criminal Code holds that "Conduct that the person believes to be necessary to avoid imminent physical harm to that person or another is justifiable if the desirability and urgency of avoiding such harm outweigh, according to ordinary ...

  9. Military necessity - Wikipedia

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    The judgement of a field commander in battle over military necessity and proportionality is rarely subject to domestic or international legal challenge unless the methods of warfare used by the commander were illegal, as for example was the case with Radislav Krstic who was found guilty as an aider and abettor to genocide by International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for the ...