Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy - Hardcover

Simpson, A. W. Brian; Simpson, Brian

 
9781852852009: Cannibalism and Common Law: A Victorian Yachting Tragedy
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1852852003 ISBN 13: 9781852852009
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

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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Verlag
Continnuum-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1852852003
ISBN 13 
9781852852009
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
356
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