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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... drawing was for some reason something better not mentioned at all . Contemporary accounts of the landing at Falmouth also refer to a belief in the town that no such proposal had ever been made and , in consequence , to local animosity ...
... drawing lots . At this time Dudley's proposal was not that lots should be drawn there and then but eventually ; the others thought it premature to discuss the idea . Someone said , " Do not let us talk about that yet . There is plenty ...
... drawing lots at all in his numerous written accounts of what happened . The whole question of lots was , as it were , better passed over in silence ; to this extent candor did not prevail . In the same way , Dudley's frankness under ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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