"Necessity is the law of the time and action, and things are lawful by necessity, which otherwise are not; "Quicguid necessitas cogit, defendit"; and the law of the time must regulate the law of the place in such public things."
— Necessity

January 1, 1970

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Edward Littleton, 1st Baron Littleton of Mounslow, Hampden's Case (1637), 3 How. St. Tr. 927, reported in The Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904) edited by James William Norton-Kyshe, p. 182