 Matter is said to be obscene when its tendency is to excite libidinous thoughts and desires or to corrupt and deprave those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands it may fall.  The Publishers Weekly - Page 941916Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Courts - 1962 - 884 pages
...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. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...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. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...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. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would... | |
 | Edward William Cox - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...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. Now, with regard to this work, it is quite certain that it would... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 762 pages
...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 of this sort may fall. (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 778 pages
...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 of this sort may fall. (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1872 - 762 pages
...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 of this sort may fall. (/) It is no defence to an indictment for such a publication that... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 680 pages
...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." One more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...obscenity was said tobe " 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 the sort may fall." This latter was a case where a pamphlet, called "The Confessional... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - Forms (Law) - 1881 - 836 pages
...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." (Per Cockburn, CJ, in 7i'. v. HicJclin, LR 3 QB 371; 37 LJMC... | |
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