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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... crew member of a successful racing yacht was highly prestigious and could also be very profitable , for prize money appears to have been shared at least in part by the crew ; very considerable sums of prize money were available in the ...
... crew . She became Irex , and surviving crew lists of 1885 and 1887 show her under commission under Captain O'Neill with two mates ( Ben Parker as second mate ) , nine or ten able seamen , a steward , and a cook . It is somewhat ...
... crew and passengers were saved . However , she must have been salvaged but was apparently wrecked yet again on her second voyage , which began on September 12 ; a note on the crew list in Gorman's hand , dated November 12 , records that ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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