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I don't see any source for this being known as 'The Custom of the Sea'. You have quoted cases where cannibalism has taken place, all of which have differing rationales as to why the eventual cannibalee was chosen. So, what is the custom? Is there even such a thing as 'the custom of the sea' - where has it been referred to as this?

There is no canibalism in The Lord of the Flies. I'm taking that down.

I removed most of the content from the article (much of it involving cannibalism) because there were no sources and was irrelevant to the title of the article. napstein. 2 May 2009 (UTC)

The 1915 Marsden book "Documents relating to law and custom of the sea" is out of copyright and is available online at http://www.archive.org/details/documentsrelatin01marsuoft. It has references to "custom of the sea" dating back to 1630 in various places and would be a reliable source for a Wikipedia editor who wants to expand this article. napstein 2 May 2009 (UTC)

I note that User:134.173.88.173 reverted my wholesale changes to the article with the comment "Reverting Deletion. Information was relevant and useful. Please refer to Neil Hanson's Custom of the Sea which agrees with the information on this page".

I am reverting this reversion for the following reasons:

a) Wikipedia requires multiple sources, and only one has been put forward.

b) Neil Hanson did indeed write a book with the name "The Custom of the Sea", with the byline "A shocking true tale of shipwreck, murder and the last taboo" (http://www.neilhanson.co.uk/book3.php). This book is about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._v._Dudley_and_Stephens. It is not a scholarly work on the Custom of the Sea.

c) My own investigations have not led me to any sources that state that there is one Custom of the Sea as desribed in the previous version of this article.

d) This content would be more properly placed in an article with a title like "Survival Cannibalism".

napstein 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Consider merging this article with Consulate of the Sea or correcting the references in there. Something does not match.--Paco ✉ 17:19, 11 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would oppose such a merge. The two topics are not related. 216.36.188.184 (talk) 00:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I too would oppose the merge, it's not all formal law. Tristyn^{^⌘} 06:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to make a list here so hopefully we'll have some more direction:

Parley
Law of salvage
Man overboard
Seamanship (maybe, maybe just also see)
Pirate code (maybe, maybe just also see)
Admiralty law (just the also see)

Tristyn^{^⌘} 06:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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 :I would oppose such a merge. The two topics are not related. [[Special:Contributions/216.36.188.184|216.36.188.184]] ([[User talk:216.36.188.184|talk]]) 00:12, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
+:I too would oppose the merge, it's not all formal law. Tristyn<sup><sup>[[User_talk:TrystynAlxander|&#x2318;]]</sup></sup> 06:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
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+I'm going to make a list here so hopefully we'll have some more direction:
+*[[Parley]]
+*[[Law of salvage]]
+*[[Man overboard]]
+*[[Seamanship]] (maybe, maybe just also see)
+*[[Pirate code]] (maybe, maybe just also see)
+*[[Admiralty law]] (just the also see)
+Tristyn<sup><sup>[[User_talk:TrystynAlxander|&#x2318;]]</sup></sup> 06:54, 24 October 2014 (UTC)