JUS NECESSITATIS

jus necessitatis (j[schwa]s n[schwa]-ses-i-tay-tis), n. [Latin] A person’s right to do what is required for which no threat of legal punishment is a dissuasion. • This idea implicates the proverb that necessity knows no law (necessitas non habet legem), so that an act that would be objectively understood as necessary is not wrongful even if […]