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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... four miles an hour , or 96 miles a day , and this in light winds . At noon on the same day she was near the Eddystone Light , her last contact with England and the point from which the ocean voyage began . Employing the traditional ...
... four exhausted survivors by the casting of lots , others regard with more charity the unparalleled extremity to which they were driven , and contend that it would have been equally a crime to have sacrificed one of the other three ...
... four miles away but took no notice of them . The behavior of the survivors deteriorated as conditions grew worse , with vin- dictive attitudes directed toward Patrick O'Brien . According to one account , it was on December 19 , the ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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