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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... fact that after drinking seawater Richard could not bring himself to drink urine again . Stephens too may have drunk rather more seawater than he admitted - he was the next weak- est , suffering greatly from internal pains and swollen ...
... fact known rather earlier of the departure of the men from Singapore and on June 14 had written to the Colonial Office on the subject — the letter appar- ently no longer exists . The Colonial Office had in fact suggested to the Board of ...
... facts they have found , and the court is to give Judgment upon the facts they have so found . It is not a question of verdict at all . ” So the theory adopted was that in a case where a " special verdict " was found , there was in fact ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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