 | John Dawson Mayne - 1904 - 1186 lapas
...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 the sort may fall." Therefore, where a person was indicted for selling a book called " The Confessional... | |
 | William Blake Odgers - 1905 - 1020 lapas
...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,...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." (Per Cockburn, CJ, in R. \. Hicldin, (1868) LR 3 QB 371 ; 37 LJMC 89 ; 16 WR 801 ; 18 LT 395; 11 Cox,... | |
 | Edward Wavell Ridges - 1905 - 532 lapas
...the truth of Christian doctrines. (6) Obscene words are such as are calculated to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands such matter is likely to fall, (c) Seditious words are such as tend to bring into hatred or contempt,... | |
 | Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Alexander Robertson - 1908 - 698 lapas
...supra, was this : " Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences,...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." If the work be obscene within this rule, its publication is an indictable misdemeanour, however innocent... | |
 | 1906 - 900 lapas
...obscenity is this, — whether the tendency of the matter, charged as obscene, is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall». Here, we can take space to analyze but one of the numerous absurdities involved in this... | |
 | 1909 - 556 lapas
...down this test : "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." It will be observed that it >vas criminal, if in the hands of any one imaginary person it might be... | |
 | 1909 - 284 lapas
..."Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds 249 are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." It will be observed that it was criminal, if in the hands of any one imaginary person it might be speculatively... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1910 - 780 lapas
...the tendency of the matter is to deprave and corrupt the morals of those whose minds are open to such influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall * * * The statute uses the word "lewd" which means having a tendency to excite lustful thoughts."2... | |
 | Frances Fenton - 1911 - 112 lapas
...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,...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" (p. 24). Likewise, Parmelee, in his Sociology and Anthropology in Relation to Criminal Procedure,16... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - 1911 - 452 lapas
...down this test : "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences,...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." It will be observed that it was criminal, if in the hands of any one imaginary person it might be speculatively... | |
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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. 
