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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... practice among " savages " or less " civilized " peoples . Travelers ' tales and missionaries ' accounts never tired of recounting the existence and character of the practice , and the engravers produced amazing pictures of the ...
... practice . " It was principally around cannibalism among savages that there developed a vast literature , in which schol- ars or pseudo - scholars have produced elaborate and sometimes com- ical taxonomies of the practice . Wholly ...
... practice at the bar to become chief justice of Madras in British India , a post he held until 1899. It was not a moment of his life when he would have been at all eager to make a mistake . The judge selected to conduct the trial , Baron ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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