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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... died , surpassing all nineteenth - century records and never surpassed by a merchant vessel , though more passengers alone died on the Empress of Ireland in 1914 . The nineteenth - century British and European record was held by the ...
... died . This last wish was complied with . He died on the 6th day . " Another sailor became raving mad and died ; the survivors were rescued on the twelfth day by the Volunteer , which landed them at Hull . On arrival , Timothy Madagan ...
... died of a particularly virulent form of the disease . Between then and July , when the city was at last declared free , some 303 cases were identified , and 103 persons died , a low mortality rate of 34 % . Tom Dudley , the first victim ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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