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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... lived in a house on Head Street , but the family had been disrupted by the death of Susannah Dudley , who died in 1859 when Tom was six . By 1871 his sister Charlotte was living with another aunt , Elizabeth Fisher ; and George no ...
... lived in Itchen Ferry itself at Smith's Quay next door to Albert ( " Curly " ) Bedford ( 1884-1979 ) , whose father - in - law was Dan ( “ Bucky Eye " ) Parker ( 1860–1940 ) , second mate of the Kaiser's Meteor and another cousin of ...
... lived when on shore and no doubt en- tertained his cronies in the bar with tales of the voyage of the Mignon- ette . Edwin Stephens's modest little terrace house is still intact , near a particularly magnificent Victorian public house ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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