TY - JOUR AU - Frame, Alex PY - 2008/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Salmond, Necessity, and the State JF - Victoria University of Wellington Law Review JA - VUWLR VL - 38 IS - 4 SE - Articles DO - 10.26686/vuwlr.v38i4.5544 UR - https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/vuwlr/article/view/5544 SP - 719-742 AB - <p>This article explores the varying approaches of Sir John Salmond as government adviser, judicial office, and legal theorist, to the State and the circumstances under which it might act under "necessity" in disregard of law. An epilogue provides the writer's own attempt in formal advice to delineate the boundaries of the doctrine in modern jurisprudence.</p> ER -