ABSTRACT
It is true that in a number of cases, necessitous interveners have been granted a measure of relief. The best known example is the maritime salvor: but he is not the only one. Others (dealt with in greater detail below) include agents of necessity, bailees put in a quandary as to what to do with goods in their charge, and those intervening to discharge duties, such as the burial of the dead, which by law ought to be shouldered by someone else. But, as yet, little evidence is available of any judicial attempt to regard these as anything other than a series of discrete exceptions.
