Legal regulation of compensation for the damage caused for reasons of urgent necessity as considered in the roman law and its reception in the Russian civil law

In the article the attempt is made to take the retrospective view of the Roman law regulation in respect to damage compensation on the whole and the damage caused by justifiable actions in particular. The conclusion is made that the Roman law confessed the damage caused for reasons of urgent necessity as damage caused by justifiable actions, as a result of which a damager was released from compensation obligation.