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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. "
Reports of All the Cases Decided by All the Superior Courts Relating to ... - Page 76
by Great Britain. Magistrates' cases - 1870
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A Treatise on Criminal Law as Applicable to the Dominion of Canada

Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal law - 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...
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A Treatise on Criminal Law as Applicable to the Dominion of Canada

Samuel Robinson Clarke - Criminal justice, Administration of - 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...
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The Local Courts' and Municipal Gazette, Volume 8

Law - 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...
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The Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 17

Law - 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...
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Commentaries on the Indian Penal Code (Act XLV of 1860)

India - Criminal law - 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...
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The Central Law Journal, Volume 91

Law - 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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The Law of Literature: Reviewing the Laws of Literary Property in ..., Volume 1

Appleton Morgan - Contempt of court - 1875 - 538 pages
...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...influences, and into whose hands a publication of the sort may fall." This latter was a case where a pamphlet, called "The Confessional Unmasked ; professing...
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A Treatise on Criminal Law, Volume 2

Francis Wharton - Criminal law - 1880 - 858 pages
...People, 89 Ш. 441; Bell v. State, 1 Swan, 42. In R. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, Cockburn, CJ, said : " The test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency...those whose minds are open to such immoral influences ; " " a definition," says the Alb. LJ, June 21, 1879, " which was substantially adopted by Judge Benedict...
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The Federal Reporter, Volume 129

Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1108 pages
...Justice Cockburn in Rex v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, "where the tendency of the matter charged as obscene is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall, and where it would suggest to the minds of the young of either sex, or even to persons of more advanced...
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Frauds Exposed: Or, How the People are Deceived and Robbed, and Youth Corrupted

Anthony Comstock - Fraud - 1880 - 598 pages
...follows: Whether the tendency of tlie matter charged as obscenity, is to deprave and corrupt those whoso minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall. We find then that even if there were no statute, the common law prohibits obscene publications, and...
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