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Mini-review: Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
Monday, October 25th, 2004 11:57 amWell, I'm done. Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ( only very minor spoilers, if any )
Monday, October 25th, 2004
Pitcairn trial
Monday, October 25th, 2004 12:50 pm"The men's lawyers had also argued that the Bounty mutineers, who settled on the island, stopped being British subjects when they burnt the ship in 1789." BBC News
This argument intrigues me, and reminds me of various arguments (throughout nautical literature but primarily, I suspect, from O'Brian) re a captain losing his authority when his ship is wrecked. (Does it count if you destroy the ship yourself?)
Any legal weight to this argument? Is severing one's nationality as simple, and symbolic, as this?
This argument intrigues me, and reminds me of various arguments (throughout nautical literature but primarily, I suspect, from O'Brian) re a captain losing his authority when his ship is wrecked. (Does it count if you destroy the ship yourself?)
Any legal weight to this argument? Is severing one's nationality as simple, and symbolic, as this?