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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... January 11. The Times exhibited no such delicacy of feeling , and the story was soon widely known . The Agenora put to sea again on Tuesday , January 12. As for the men , no attempt was made to detain them in Falmouth . They even ...
... January 3. From there they came back to Southampton on January 1 , 1859. They reached Limerick to be signed off at the customs house on January 7. There Captain Gorman was described by the Limerick Chronicle as “ still in a nervous ...
... January 5 , 1875 16. The Euxine Times , December 22 and 29 , 1874 ; April 6 and 28 , 1875 Singapore Daily Times , November 12 , 13 , and 17 , 1874 ; January 7 , 8 , 16 , 23 , 28 ; February 1 , 2 , 3 , and 12 ; March 29 ; April 19 , 1875 ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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