Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power
The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
(law) Greater utilitarian good; used in justification of a criminal act.
“The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.”