 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 668 pages
...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...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 minds... | |
 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - Justices of the peace - 1870 - 672 pages
...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 - Criminal law - 1871 - 856 pages
...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...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 minds... | |
 | Law - 1872 - 218 pages
...think," says his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this — whether the tendency of the the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those...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... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 1872 - 762 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 1872 - 762 pages
...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...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 the... | |
 | Law - 1873 - 680 pages
..." 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...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 counsel... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - Criminal law - 1879 - 838 pages
...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...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 minds... | |
 | India - Criminal law - 1874 - 656 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...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...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. 
