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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... Criminal Pleading and Evidence , the standard treatise on criminal law , did suggest that a certain measure of tampering was in order if based on the judge's notes . Arthur Collins now raised a more radical textual difficulty , which ...
... Criminal Law of England , published only the previous year , when he described the subject as " so vague that , if cases raising the question should ever occur the judges would practically be able to lay down any rule which they ...
... Criminal Procedure , gave a reasoned explanation of his decision to release the men . To the best of my knowledge , no sentences have ever been carried out against people who under circumstances similar to those described here have ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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