Note 357 — Chapter XVIII · INTENTION AND NEGLIGENCE.
Reading edition
Reg. v. Dudley 14 Q. B. D. 273. The law as to compulsion and necessity is discussed in Stephen’s History of the Criminal Law, vol. ii. ch. 18, and in an Article on Homicide by Necessity, in L. Q. R. I. 51. See also the German Criminal Code, sect. 54, in which the jus necessitatis receives express recognition.