What is the legitimate legal determinant of necessity?
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Scholars have defined necessity as a person reaching a point where, if they do not partake of the forbidden, they will perish or be on the verge of perishing. This is like someone compelled to eat, such that if they remain hungry, they would die, or an organ would be damaged, or a limb would be lost.
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