(1) Invoking State must not have contributed to the state of necessity, (2) Actions taken were only way to safeguard an essential interest from grave and impending danger.

It was said his activity was in a State of Necessity.

In addition, under Brazilian law, people are permitted to steal food if they find themselves "in a state of necessity."

One of their arguments was that a 'state of necessity' existed in which the ordinary provisions of canon law could be set aside.

Any discussion of socioeconomic status in the United States of necessity involves a discussion of race, since the two are entwined in complex, sometimes inextricable, ways.

(1) Invoking State must not have contributed to the state of necessity, (2) Actions taken were only way to safeguard an essential interest from grave and impending danger.

It claimed that "Israel cannot rely on a right of self-defence or on a state of necessity in order to preclude the wrongfulness of the construction of the wall".

In a letter to the magazine Epoca, he attacked the "state of necessity" exception brought by the court, and wrote that any gentlemen, whatever his dress, knows how not to get involved with the Mafia.

But under fire from judges, the Roman Catholic Church and the news media - all of which noted that under Brazilian law, thefts committed out of a "state of necessity" are not criminal offenses - the President seemed to backtrack.

According to the ICJ, Israel cannot rely on the right of self-defense or on a state of necessity, and is guilty of violating basic human rights by impeding liberty of movement and the right to work, to health, to education and to an adequate standard of living.

Later on August 4, German Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg told the Reichstag that the German invasions of Belgium and Luxembourg were in violation of international law, but he argued that Germany was "in a state of necessity, and necessity knows no law."