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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... ship a crew of two only had come under criticism , and he now decided to engage a mate in addition . On May 15 he went with three men he had selected to the customs house , where they formally signed the ship's articles before the ...
... ship- owner whom we have met , even had a ship called The Bates Family , with the ultimate vulgarity of an appropriate group figurehead de- picting nine members of his family . Whether the Francis Spaight's figurehead , recorded as " A ...
... ship comes into St. Vincent , Cape Verde . “ The Ship in Distress " is indeed the English form of a ballad that exists in a variety of forms throughout Europe and Scandinavia . In Por- tugal , it is the " Ship Catherine , " being ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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