necessity
Definition 1
Economics: Good or service (such as food, water, medical attention) whose consumption is essential to human survival, or which is considered indispensable for maintaining a certain minimum standard-of-living.
Definition 2
Law: Circumstance that compels a course of action. A legal defense may succeed where a lesser damage or harm was caused out of necessity to prevent a greater damage or harm, and the action taken was reasonable under the circumstances.
necessity is in the Corporate, Commercial, & General Law and Economics, Politics, & Society subjects.
necessity appears in the definitions of the following terms: stipulation, strict liability, direct method cash flow statement, obligation, onus, demand letter and Ockham's razor
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