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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... lost ) , where the men of the 74th Highland Regiment stood at attention on deck , the band playing , while the women and children were saved , and the captain very properly went down with his ship . Emigrant ships packed with human ...
... lost ; the tonnage came to 212,149 . This total included no fewer than 398 sailing vessels , so the Mignonette was clearly not an isolated case . In particular years the numbers of ships lost could be much higher ; in 1881-82 no fewer ...
... lost for a variety of reasons , and unseaworthiness was only one of them . The culmination of his efforts came in a dramatic scene in the House of Commons . Though he had helped to secure the appointment of the Somerset Commission ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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