Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting TragedyBloomsbury Academic, 1994 - 353 páginas Cannibalism and the Common Law is an enthralling classic of legal history. It tells the tragic story of the yacht Mignonette, which foundered on its way from England to Australia in 1884. The killing and eating of one of the crew, Richard Parker, led to the leading case in the defence of necessity, R. v. Dudley and Stephens. It resulted in their being convicted and sentenced to death, a sentence subsequently commuted. In this tour de force Brian Simpson sets the legal proceedings in their broadest historical context, providing a detailed account of the events and characters involved and of life at sea in the time of sail. Cannibalism and the Common Law is a demonstration that legal history can be written in human terms and can be compulsive reading. This brilliant and fascinating book, a marvelous example of eareful historical detection, and first-class legal history, written by a master. |
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... December 1 , on December 5 she was approaching the entrance to the channel . Her last landfall had been Cape Finisterre , where she had set a course of northeast by east , intending to pass 25 miles off Ushant . The last sun sight had ...
... December 13 by the Caroline , after , " as the only means of saving their own lives , the survivors were obliged to the horrible experience of drinking the blood and eating the flesh of their deceased shipmates , even to the entrails ...
... December 12 it was decided that the sentence be commuted to six months ' imprisonment , not at hard labor , to be dated from December 4 , the date of judgment against them , not sentence . Lewis Harcourt noted , " This is very ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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