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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... maritime and mercantile custom . A series of acts of parliament , originating with one of 1536 and continued with acts of 1799 ; 1834 ; and 1844 , had transferred the power to try criminal cases arising on the high seas from the Court ...
... maritime tradition . He was the longest lived of the three survivors and died almost exactly a quarter of a century after the day Richard was killed . Edwin Stephens also continued for some time to live in Southamp- ton , first at 73 ...
... Maritime Museum ,. Bath , Maine The Marine Society , London The Maritime History Group of Memorial University , St. John's , Newfoundland The Maryland Historical Study , Baltimore , Maryland The Massachusetts Historical Society , Boston ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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