 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 778 pages
...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and indictable. (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1872 - 762 pages
...publication of any obscene writings is unlawful and indictable. (e) The test of an obscene publication is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 680 pages
...Cockburn in the case of Ilcrj. v. Hieklin, " I think," said his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this —whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1874 - 656 pages
...cases will generally be bold enough. In the language of Cockburn, CJ, " the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...of obscenity was given by Cockburn, CJ, in 11 Cox CC 191, when he said that the test of obscenity is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands the publication... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - Criminal law - 1879 - 838 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...inserted." — Rex v. Hicklin, L. Rep. 32, B. 371. In a recent case,1 the test of obscenity was said to be " whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
 | United States. Circuit Court (2nd Circuit) - Law reports, digests, etc - 1880 - 636 pages
...that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication... | |
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I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. 
