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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... verdict . The clerk of assize of the Western circuit , William Channell Bovill , formally produced the record and passed it to J. R. Mellor , master of the Crown office , who proceeded to read it . This ritual must have taken some ...
... verdict " appeared to hand over the determination of guilt or innocence entirely to the judges . Surely the jury should decide on guilt or innocence — to give verdicts — not judges . Further research into the precedents revealed that in ...
... verdict , in failing to give the jury its final say , transferred this final say to the judges , and that was in principle objectionable . As Collins put it , " unless there was a finding [ i.e. , a conditional " finding " or " verdict ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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