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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... story and the individuals concerned but did not set out to relate the story ( which he imaginatively elaborated ) to legal and maritime his- tory generally . The isolation of a leading case from its historical context may be acceptable ...
... story of the Donner party , cut off and starving in the High Sierras during the winter of 1846-47 . Stories of the misfortunes that occurred circulated widely at the time , but knowl- edge of the case was heightened by the 1879 ...
... story of the Euxine or , if he did , kept quiet about it in public . She was not one of the five lost Bates ships Plimsoll specifically named on July 22 in the Commons when he attacked Bates , yet it is almost incredible that he should ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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