"Necessity" TPC §9.22.longtooth wrote:Lawyers or legal eagles:
#1. What is the legal term used for breaking one law to keep a greater harm from taking place if the law was not broken.
TPC §9.22 - Necessity wrote:Sec. 9.22. NECESSITY. Conduct is justified if:
(1) the actor reasonably believes the conduct is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm;
(2) the desirability and urgency of avoiding the harm clearly outweigh, according to ordinary standards of reasonableness, the harm sought to be prevented by the law proscribing the conduct; and
(3) a legislative purpose to exclude the justification claimed for the conduct does not otherwise plainly appear.