Multiple choice

Assertion (A): Necessity knows no law. Reason (R): Necessity does not justify the indiscriminate throwing of a passenger over board to save a sinking boat.

  1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

  2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

  3. (A) is true, but (R) is false.

  4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.
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Explanation
  1. Necessity knows no law is a proverb. It means that being desperate and having no means may lead you to do illegal things. But necessity does not justify the indiscriminate throwing of a passenger over board to save a sinking boat as to save a boat, the life cannot be lost. Both A and R are individually true but R does not explain A.
    1. R is not the correct explanation of A as stated above.
    2. A life cannot be taken to save a sinking boat thus necessity does not justify the indiscriminate throwing of a passenger over board to save a sinking boat.
    3. A legal maxim “quod necessitas non habet legem” states necessity knows no law.

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