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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... John Henry Want ( 1846-1905 ) ; he came from Sydney , his father Randolf John Want having emigrated in 1837 to establish a legal practice there . Randolf Want had been a successful lawyer and a founder member of the Royal Sydney Yacht ...
... John Burton , who now had custody of Dudley's property , was a celebrated local character . His shop , The Old Curiosity Shop , stood a short way from the police station at 27 Market Street . Here Burton stocked an extraordinary ...
... John Gorman , still protesting , was forced under threats of death to kill him . Blood was caught in the top of the tureen , and the majority fed on the corpse , though a sailor by the name of John Mahony refused . Matters grew worse ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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