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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... September 13 to the director of public prosecutions and the Board of Trade by Sir Adolphus Liddell . The legal machinery had now been set irrev- ocably in motion , and the lawyers took over for the moment . Almost at once the Home ...
... September 9 had located the original source of the story of the sailors of St. Christopher in the writings of Nicolaus Tulpius . The letter of “ Another Barrister " on September 12 had argued powerfully against recognizing the defense ...
... September 4 and 25 , 1899 New York Tribune , September 3 and 22 , 1899 News and Courier , Charleston , September 4 and 23 , 1899 Collection of press cuttings from the Stavanger Maritime Museum 28. Dudley in Australia Sydney Mail , March ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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