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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... lord chief justice's court in the Royal Courts of Justice in London . In it , two profoundly respectable seamen , Captain Tom Dudley and Mate Ed- win Stephens , lately of the yacht Mignonette , were sentenced to death for the murder of ...
... lord chief justice , Lord Coleridge , made arrangements to sit himself as presiding judge , assisted by Baron Huddleston ( whose views had now been formally stated twice ) and three other judges : Grove , Denman , and Pollock . These ...
... Lord Coleridge had concluded the reading of his opinion , Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens were called to stand and told , " You have been convicted of murder . What have you to say why the Court should not give you judgment to die ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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