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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... aged 26 . He had shipped as an able seaman on an American sailing ship , the William Brown of Philadelphia , in which city lived her captain , George L. Harris , aged 44. Built in New York in about 1826 , the William Brown's tonnage was ...
A Victorian Yachting Tragedy Brian Simpson. families already in America . Bridget McGee , aged 19 , from Dro- gheda , was to join her father , a livery stable keeper in Philadelphia ; Biddy Nugent , aged 17 , was traveling with her uncle ...
... aged 32 and presumably married to each other . Alexander worked as a clerk in the Railway Department and did not normally live with the Dudleys . Was he , one cannot but wonder , some relative of Richard's whom the Dudleys , as an act ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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