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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... jury of the county , whose job it was to decide whether they should be put on trial at all ( in which case , the jury found “ a true bill " of indict- ment ) ; if the jury rejected the case ( " ignored " the bill ) , the charge was ...
... jury , the indictment against Dudley and Stephens would then proceed to the second stage - the actual trial of the men , taking place before the petty or trial jury . This comprised 12 jurors , as is the rule today , but there have been ...
... jury to find a special verdict , which could then be considered before a bench of senior judges in London . Normally , a jury simply found a general verdict , simply " guilty " or " not guilty . " However , a pro- cedure had formerly ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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