Controlling force; irresistible compulsion; a power or impulse so great that it admits no choice of conduct, when it is said that an aet is done “under necessity,” it may he. in law. either of three kinds of necessity: (1) The necessity of pre-serving one’s own life, which will excuse a homicide; (2) the necessity of obedience, as to the laws, or the obedience of one not sui juris to his superior; (3) the necessity caus
Source: Black’s Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
