 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 668 lapas
...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...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 suggest to the... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 672 lapas
...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...influences, 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... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1871 - 856 lapas
...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...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 suggest to the... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 778 lapas
...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...influences, 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... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - 1872 - 762 lapas
...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...influences, 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... | |
 | 1872 - 218 lapas
...НieЫtп. " I â think," says his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this — whether the tendency of the the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and...influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. One more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiffs counsel... | |
 | 1873 - 680 lapas
...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...influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Cue more observation as to the defence in Dixon v. Smith. Why, the plaintiff's... | |
 | India - 1874 - 656 lapas
...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...into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." Therefore, where a person was indicted for selling a book called "The Confessional Unmasked," shewing... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 lapas
...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...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 suggest to the... | |
 | 1920 - 516 lapas
...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...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... | |
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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. 
