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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... seamen ; nor did any system exist to control tyrannical or brutal masters . Once they joined a ship , seamen could raise no questions as to the seaworthiness of the ship on which they were bound to sail and could be sent to prison if ...
... seamen to a greater extent than among Foreign seamen they may fairly be charged with a reckless neglect both of their employers ' interests and of their own . " The immoral and licentious habits of seamen on return to port were of ...
... seamen will eat and be eaten as before . ” He went on , " Of course if the castaways should be so unspeakably ... seamen will put to sea so fortified ? " No doubt he was right in supposing that common seamen did not read the law reports ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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