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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... given rise to an extensive literature as a classic of the old West , his name has largely sunk into obscurity . This has not been the fate of Alferd G. Packer , the Colorado man- eater . His was the second notable tale of cannibalism in ...
... given a chart , a compass , a quadrant and a watch , told by the captain that he was 200 miles from land , and given a course . This all indicated that Captain Harris did not propose to keep him company . The longboat , though little ...
... given in an appendix to this study , and in the main its precise terms were not a subject of any dispute . Counsel made no suggestions for its improvement , and the jury agreed to it , paragraph by paragraph , apparently mostly by nods ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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