Necessitas Culpabilis Law and Legal Definition
Necessitas Culpabilis is a Latin word which means culpable necessity. Generally, necessity as a defense excuses an act done under compulsion. An actor cannot justify criminal conduct when s/he was criminally culpable in creating the conditions making it necessary. Necessity as a defense is not available for purposeful, knowing, and reckless criminal conduct that directly causes an offense. Failing to account for criminally created culpability renders the concept of justification defective.
Legal Definition list
- Necessary to Ensure Public Health and Safety
- Necessary Property (Eminent Domain)
- Necessary Party
- Necessary Inference
- Necessary and Proper Clause
- Necessitas Culpabilis
- Necessitas Facit Licitum Quod Alias Est Licitum
- Necessitas Inducit Privilegium
- Necessitas Juris
- Necessitas Publica Major Est Quam Privata
- Necessitas Quod Cogit, Defendit
