 | 1906 - 900 pages
...«The statute uses the word «lewd», which means, having a tendency to excit lustful 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 to such immoral influences and into whose... | |
 | Theodore Schroeder - Freedom of the press - 1906 - 78 pages
..."The statute uses the word 'lewd,' which means, having a tendency to excite lustful 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 to such immoral influences and into whose... | |
 | Balwantrai R. Desai - 1907 - 1094 pages
...pott-card containing language of an obscene character. In Queen v. Ilicklin (1) it was laid down that " the test of obscenity is this, whether the tendency of the matter is to deprave and corrupt the minds of those who are open to immoral influences, and into whose hands... | |
 | Canada, W. J. Tremeear - Annotations and citations (Law) - 1908 - 1100 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - Neurology - 1908 - 630 pages
...must, to such a woman, be "obscene" under the judicial "tests" because she believes that it "tends to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences." As portrayed by an epistle supposed to have been written by Clement of Rome, one of the early Christian... | |
 | Albert H. Putney - Law - 1908 - 448 pages
...representations.188 SECTION 208. THE TEST OF OBSCENITY. The test of an obscene book is stated 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, who might come in contact with it.... | |
 | Albert Hutchinson Putney - Law - 1908 - 460 pages
...representations.188 SECTION 208. THE TEST OF OBSCENITY. The test of an obscene book is stated 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, who might come in contact with it.... | |
 | Medicine - 1909 - 556 pages
...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... | |
 | Censorship - 1909 - 284 pages
..."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... | |
 | 1935 - 828 pages
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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. 
