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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... boat came knocking his tail at our boats bottom the thought of a monster like him near us was not very agreeable I can assure you after a few hits on the head from our ore he left . " Dudley was never given to indecision . The ...
... boats , a jolly boat rigged as a sailing cutter , and a shallower longboat propelled by oars . The jolly boat was between 19 and 20 feet long , the longboat 221⁄2 and some six feet in beam . Launching the boats was a complicated ...
... boat did not . In the common law world , the last nineteenth - century instance of a frank admission of cannibalism after a shipwreck took place in 1889 and involved an American crew . While on a voyage from Baltimore to Rio de Janeiro ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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