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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... letter , given me by Captain C. C. H. Diaper of Itchen Fery . In Blood on the Sea , Otilia is referred to , though not by name , in two partially reproduced letters , to which Mr. McCormick had access , by Phillipa Dudley to a Mrs ...
... letter was prepared for the Board of Trade , suggesting the men simply be left in Singapore . By cable on June 16 , Singapore revealed that the men had left almost a month earlier . The Colonial Office now set about the task of passing ...
... letter every three months , he instructed that Dudley should have a letter and visit each fortnight , and Stephens later received the same privileges . Special food was not permitted , no doubt on the ground that if the prison doctor ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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