 | Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870 - 668 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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...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... | |
 | Nicholas St. John Green - 1879 - 838 sider
...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...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1875 - 538 sider
...inserted." — Rex v. Hicklin, L. Rep. 32, B. 371. In a recent case,1 the test of obscenity was said to be " whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." This latter was a case where a pamphlet, called "The Confessional Unmasked ; professing to show the... | |
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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. 
