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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... reported in the Plymouth journal ; she was another timber ship . After the vessel became waterlogged on a voyage from Quebec to Padstow , Master Rashleigh ( the vessel was presumably called after his wife ) , two mates , and three ...
... reported the arrival there on August 18 of two boats containing the master and 22 members of the crew of the Euxine , which had been abandoned on fire , some 850 miles away at latitude 31 ° 20 ′ south , longitude 7 ° 40 ′ west . He reported ...
... reported in the Colorado Law Reports of 1893. In 1898 a writ of error was brought on a number of grounds , including the delay in bringing the case to trial . This again failed , as did another attempt in 1899. In all , Packer's case ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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