| 1905 - 1240 sider
...2CO). His Hardship said:— " I think the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the nutter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those...influences and into whose hands a publication of this kiud may fall." If a publication is detrimental to public uurals and, as observed by Cockburn CJ in... | |
| William Blake Odgers - 1905 - 1020 sider
...such it is punishable at common law. (R. v. Curl, (1727) 2 Str. 788 ; 1 Barnard. 29, ante, p. 463.) The test of obscenity is this : — " Whether the...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 - 500 sider
...examine and question 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 sider
...v. Barraclough, supra). The test of obscenity laid down by Cockburn, CJ, in R v. Hicklin, supra, was this : " Whether the tendency of the matter charged...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 sider
...thoughts. . . The test of obscenity is this, — whether the tendency of the matter, charged as obscene, is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...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... | |
| Canada, W. J. Tremeear - 1908 - 1100 sider
...Zenobio v. Axtell, 6 TR 162; R. v. Peltier, 28 St. Tr. 529. Obscenity.] — "The test of obscenity is whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence, and into whose hand* a publication of this sort may fall." R. v. Hicklin. LR 3 QB 371. per... | |
| 1909 - 556 sider
...Notwithstanding all these admitted facts the court held the pamphlet to be obscene and laid down this test : "Whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity...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 sider
..."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... | |
| Frances Fenton - 1911 - 112 sider
...with a book alleged by the defendant to be printed in the interests of Protestant religion, "I think the test of obscenity is this : Whether the tendency...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... | |
| Albion W. Small, Ellsworth Faris, Ernest Watson Burgess, Herbert Blumer - 1911 - 948 sider
...with a book alleged by the defendant to be printed in the interests of Protestant religion, "I think the test of obscenity is this : Whether the tendency...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall" (p. 24). Likewise, Parmelee, in his Sociology and Anthropology in Relation to Criminal Procedure,15... | |
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