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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... vessel , though more passengers alone died on the Empress of Ireland in 1914 . The nineteenth - century British and European record was held by the affair of the Princess Alice , and memories of this disaster would be fresh in 1884. She ...
... vessel during her voyage : this also appeared in a printed edition in the same year and was republished on numerous occasions . Another version , also from 1711 , was based on depositions by the mate , Christopher Langham ; the ...
... vessel became waterlogged on a voyage from Quebec to Padstow , Master Rashleigh ( the vessel was presumably called after his wife ) , two mates , and three seamen took to the longboat and were picked up after nine days on December 13 by ...
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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
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