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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... Mignonette pressed on around the North Foreland and passed through the Downs , between the Goodwin Sands and the south coast of Kent , where some 150 sailing vessels were sheltering after the storm . At 8:30 A.M. on Wednesday , the ...
... Mignonette , and shortly after Ned Brooks landed at Falmouth . Greyhound was run down by a steamer while carrying oyster brood from Brightlingsea to Whit- stable , Captain Thomas Coppin , formerly captain of the Mignonette , being the ...
... Mignonette's was about 912 knots . She could not possibly rival the runs of the clippers or larger sailing barques . Unhappily , her longest daily run is not recorded , but her progress out does indicate that she was a fast yacht ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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