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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... never moving from where he lay . . . . " His next account claimed the boy never spoke and died in five seconds ; the next ex- tended the period to 10 seconds , and the next to 30. The next two versions state that Parker " murmered what ...
... never surpassed by a merchant vessel , though more passengers alone died on the Empress of Ireland in 1914 . The nineteenth - century British and European record was held by the affair of the Princess Alice , and memories of this ...
... never been completed . The Ballad of the Mignonette ( also given the title A Case of Necessity ? ) by Jean Bernard- Williams , Nick Girdler , Graham Sinclair , and Eve Thomas was pro- duced in the Salisbury Playhouse in 1975 , and in ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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