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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... sentence accordingly . He therefore anticipated the final stages taking place at Bodmin assizes in the spring of 1885. And , although the question carrying out the sentence was no doubt thought to be academic only , it too was raised ...
... sentence of the law , and that sentence is that to the crime of which you have been convicted , you be taken to the prison where you came , and that , on a day appointed for the purpose of your execution you be there hanged by the neck ...
... sentence be commuted to six months ' imprisonment , not at hard labor , to be dated from December 4 , the date of judgment against them , not sentence . Lewis Harcourt noted , " This is very satisfactory as it is just the length of ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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