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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... 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 disaster would be fresh in 1884. She was simply a ...
... passengers may have been reasonably affluent , like Mrs. Anderson and her five children on their way to join Mr. Anderson , a medical man in practice in Cincinnati . Most , however , would be poor or very poor victims of the grim ...
... passengers , only Nancy Bradley and the infant child of the Patricks did not sign depositions . With the exception of Nancy Bradley and Biddy Nugent , all the passengers included explicit statements ex- onerating the sailors of all ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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