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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... Included , for example , were 395 schooners , some rated at well over 100 tons under the system known as " Thames measurement . " Also included were many smaller yachts , but no racing dinghies ; they had yet to be invented . Yachts ...
... included many children . She also carried a highly inflammable cargo , which included 1,732 gallons of linseed oil and 5,732 gallons of rum and spirits . Some of the emigrants plundered the spirits , and the ship caught fire on November ...
... included . Price $ 5,000 . " In 1958 , the seventy - fifth anniversary of the second trial was celebrated in Lake City by a performance of a melodrama entitled They Wuz Et in the original courtroom ; moved to the Bent Elbow , a saloon ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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