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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... thought was given by the lord chief justice as to his selection . F. W. Ashley , Horace Avory's clerk , records of him that he was in the habit of wearing gloves in court , suiting their color to the case : " There were black gloves for ...
... thought that the correct procedure was " to ask your Lordships in this Court to pro- nounce judgment . " Mr. Justice Denman was unclear as to what " judgement " here meant : " To pronounce judgement on the question of guilty or not ...
... thought it necessary on medical grounds , it would be provided in any event . Sir William had also taken a fairly unsympathetic line over the replacement of Dudley and Stephens's Board of Trade certificates as master and mate , re ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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