Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting TragedyA&C Black, 2 de ago. de 2003 - 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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Sergeant Laverty Makes an Arrest | 1 |
The Mignonette Goes Foreign | 13 |
The Horrid Deed | 55 |
Before the Falmouth Magistrates | 73 |
The Custom of the Sea | 95 |
ManEaters of the Frontier | 147 |
The William Brown and the Euxine | 161 |
The Devious Baron Huddleston | 195 |
A Lawyers Question | 225 |
Aftermath | 271 |
The Special Verdict | 307 |
Ballads Illustrating the Custom of the Sea | 313 |
Joseph Conrad and the Case of the Euxine | 323 |
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