 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 668 pages
...of this prosecution, namely, that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...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 pages
...part of this prosecution, namely, 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 obecouity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into... | |
 | Edward William Cox - 1871 - 856 pages
...Obscene publications. tion, namely, that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...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 - 778 pages
...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...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 - 762 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 1872 - 218 pages
...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...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 asked, was not... | |
 | 1873 - 680 pages
...down by Lord Chief-Justice Cockburn in the case of Ilcrj. v. Hieklin, " I think," said his Lordship, "the test of obscenity is this —whether the tendency...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 pages
...of this prosecution, namely, that obscene works are the subject-matter of indictment ; and I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...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 pages
...distinction between the two cases will generally be bold enough. In the language of Cockburn, CJ, " the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...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 pages
...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. 
