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ACT OF NECESSITY

Specialty Definition: ACT OF NECESSITY

Domain	Definition
Law	A non-punishable act which a person commits in order to preserve his own or another's life, person, freedom, honour or property from an immediate danger which cannot be otherwise averted, where the person so acting has not caused the danger and the sacrifice made by refraining from such an act cannot in the circumstances be expected to be made by the person so acting or any other endangered person. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Usage: ACT OF NECESSITY

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Act of Necessity (1991)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: ACT OF NECESSITY

Language		Translations for "ACT OF NECESSITY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
French		état de nécessité. (various references)

German		Notstand (crisis, emergency, state of emergency). (various references)

Italian		stato di necessit� . (various references)

Pig Latin		actay ofay ecessitynay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: ACT OF NECESSITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-f-i-n-o-s-s-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: confiscates.
	-4 letters: confiscate, contactees, festinates, syntactics.
	-5 letters: accession, acescents, anisettes, canoeists, cattiness, cessation, cineastes, concisest, contactee, cosecants, cysteines, cytosines, ecstatics, fattiness, festinate, fetations, fistnotes, intestacy, necessity, noisettes, notecases, scantiest, seicentos, sonicates, syntactic, tacitness, taconites, tectonics, teosintes, testacies, tetanises, yeastiest.
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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography

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