 | Lindsay Rogers - 1916 - 200 strani
...whether the test of obscenity is that laid down by Lord Cockburn : Is the tendency of the matter " to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort would fall " ?101 or the dictionary meaning as "offensive to chastity, decency or delicacy." The question... | |
 | 1917 - 1106 strani
...definition of Reg. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, imports obscenity into any matter the tendency of which is "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Under this criterion, the abnormal mind is made the standard, and the normal tendency completely ignored.... | |
 | 1917 - 1062 strani
...definition of Reg. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, imports obscenity into any matter the tendency of which is "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and in23 to whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." Under this criterion, the abnormal mind is... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1918 - 780 strani
...in large part a practical question. One test of obscenity has been said to be whether its tendency is "to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." The Queen v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, 371. The details which are set forth in these pamphlets plainly... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1918 - 976 strani
...particularly at page 411. The test of an obscene book was stated in Regina v. Hicklin (LR 3 QB 369) to be, whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and who might come into contact with... | |
 | 1919 - 592 strani
...definition of Reg. v. Hicklin, LR 3 QB 360, imports obscenity into any matter the tendency of which is 'to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.' Under this criterion, the abnormal mind is made the standard, and the normal tendency completely ignored.... | |
 | William Blake Odgers, Walter Blake Odgers - 1920 - 762 strani
...the alleged libel is to be found, and such particulars shall be deemed to form part of the record." * The test of obscenity is this: " Whether the tendency...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." 3 By 20 & 21 Viet. c. 83, s. 1, if any one reasonably believes that any obscene books or pictures are... | |
 | Alison Oram, Annmarie Turnbull - 2001 - 324 strani
...these books was wherher che rendency ot the matrer was to deprave and cotrupr those whose lives were open to such immoral influences and into whose hands a publication of this sort might fall. There were plenty ot people who would be neither depraved nor cotrupred by reading a book... | |
 | Laura L. Doan, Jay Prosser - 2001 - 436 strani
...English case for precedent. The ruling in Regina v. Hicklin held that the test of obscenity should be "whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and who might come into contact with... | |
 | Henry Schofield - 2002 - 1070 strani
...242; State v. McKee, 73 Conn., 18; State ». Van Wye, 136 Mo., 227; State ». Warren, 113 NC, 683. matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt...whose hands a publication of this sort may fall." 29 The test may be open to fair criticism as being too subjective in point of form, offensive to Americans... | |
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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. 
