pressing+necessity

  • 31Reichskammergericht — ▪ court, Holy Roman Empire German“Imperial Chamber of Justice”       supreme court of the Holy Roman Empire. The court was established by Maximilian I in 1495 and survived as the empire s highest court until the empire s dissolution in 1806.… …

    Universalium

  • 32novel —    The establishment of the Franco regime at the end of the Civil War had negative consequences for all cultural activity, not least the novel. Those pre war novelists who were not dead or exiled found themselves, for the most part, reduced to… …

    Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • 33deposit — I v. To commit to custody, or to lay down; to place; to put; to let fall (as sediment). Jefferson County ex rel. Grauman v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 273 Ky. 674, 117 S.W.2d 918, 924. To lodge for safe keeping or as a pledge to intrust to… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 34emergency — A sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 35miserabile depositum — /mizareybaliy dapozatam/ In the civil law, the name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 36deposit — I v. To commit to custody, or to lay down; to place; to put; to let fall (as sediment). Jefferson County ex rel. Grauman v. Jefferson County Fiscal Court, 273 Ky. 674, 117 S.W.2d 918, 924. To lodge for safe keeping or as a pledge to intrust to… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 37emergency — A sudden unexpected happening; an unforeseen occurrence or condition; perplexing contingency or complication of circumstances; a sudden or unexpected occasion for action; exigency; pressing necessity. Emergency is an unforeseen combination of… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 38miserabile depositum — /mizareybaliy dapozatam/ In the civil law, the name of an involuntary deposit, made under pressing necessity; as, for instance, shipwreck, fire, or other inevitable calamity …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 39emergency — Confrontation by sudden peril. 38 Am J1st Negl § 41. A pressing necessity; an exigency; an event or occasional combination of circumstances calling for immediate action or remedy. 38 Am J1st Mun Corp § 450. An unforeseen occurrence or condition… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 40Necessities — Necessity Ne*ces si*ty, n.; pl. {Necessities}. [OE. necessite, F. n[ e]cessit[ e], L. necessitas, fr. necesse. See {Necessary}.] 1. The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English