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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... death on the wave ; God help poor sailors - for we cannot see What they go through when alone on the sea . A terrible story , alas , has been told , A worse one I'm sure we ne'er could unfold , Of the sufferings of sailors on the ocean ...
... death . " But he was seized , and John Gorman , still protesting , was forced under threats of death to kill him . Blood was caught in the top of the tureen , and the majority fed on the corpse , though a sailor by the name of John ...
... death ; this sounded more like a verdict . But the attorney general meant by the term both what was normally called “ judgment " and " sentence ” —in this case , death . Collins's claim that the proceedings would end up with the judges ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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