 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 668 pàgines
...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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 672 pàgines
...and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obecouity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fallNow, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1871 - 856 pàgines
...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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 762 pàgines
...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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. ( / ) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 778 pàgines
...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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall, (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that the object of the party was laudable... | |
 | 1873 - 680 pàgines
...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...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Cue more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiff's counsel asked, was not... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 pàgines
...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...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would suggest to the minds of the young... | |
 | India - 1874 - 656 pàgines
...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...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." Therefore, where a person was indicted for selling a book called "The Confessional... | |
 | 1920 - 516 pàgines
...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...open to such immoral influences and into whose hands the publication may fall. An interesting criticism of this case is offered by the New York Law Journal... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 pàgines
...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...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." This latter was a case where a pamphlet, called "The Confessional Unmasked ; professing... | |
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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. 
