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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... killing Richard before he died naturally , he explained , was to secure his blood to drink . But on this occasion he said that he did not believe Stephens agreed to the killing . Nothing Brooks ever said suggested that he dissented ...
... killing , though Sangström claimed that an attempt had been made to persuade Francis Shufus to kill himself . The story told by the survivors plainly consists , at least in part , of an account of what ought to have preceded the killing ...
... killing some one for the others to eat . That assuming any necessity to kill anybody , there was no greater necessity for killing the boy than any of the other three men . But whether upon the whole matter by the jurors found the killing ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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