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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... later , as we shall see . Edwin Stephens also seems to have had problems in getting away from his nearby home . He had to be fetched twice but later said , " I never had the least anticipation that the Mignonette was not seaworthy . I ...
... Later he continued this letter , which , since they were rescued , never performed its func- tion as a message from the dead . As reproduced later in the press , the spelling has been corrected , for Dudley as we know could not spell ...
... later in this book . At about 6:00 A.M. , Stephens relieved Brooks at steering , and he sat on the thwarts for a little time looking around for a ship . There was no sail in sight . Then , according to both Dudley and Stephens , an ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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