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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... course it was only rowed at all because it was to leeward ) . Again it would be quite extraordinary for a merchant vessel at this time to carry a doctor , and the talk of the alteration of course makes no sense if the distances involved ...
... course whisky , regarded as essential in the old West , were provided , and Packer disappeared . He was eventually located in 1883 at Fort Fetterman , in the Wy- oming Territory . He was using the name of John Schwartze , and he was ...
... course , adopt what course your Lordship pleases after that . So Collins would tell the jury that there was a defense of necessity and invite them to acquit , and then the judge would instruct the jury that Mr. Collins had been talking ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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