Indecent Exposure - Law Dictionary Search Results
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indecent exposure : the exposing of one's private body parts (as the genitals) either recklessly or intentionally and under circumstances likely to cause offense or affront NOTE: Indecent exposure is generally classified as a misdemeanor. ...
Indecent exposure
Indecent exposure, an indictable offence at Common Law. Exposure of the person in or in view of any public street or place of resort, with intent to insult any female, is also an offence summarily punish-able under the (English) Vagrancy Act, 1824 (5 Geo. 4, c. 83), s. 4.Means an offensive display of one's body in public, esp. of the genitals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 772....
expose
expose ex·posed ex·pos·ing 1 : to subject to risk from a harmful action or condition: as a : to make (one) open to liability or financial loss b : to leave (a child) uncared-for and lacking shelter from the elements 2 : to cause to be visible or open to view: as a : to offer publicly for sale [all of which I shall for sale at public auction "Detroit Law Journal"] b : to purposely uncover (one's private body parts) or leave open to view in a place or situation in which such conduct is likely to be deemed offensive or indecent esp. as set forth by statute see also indecent exposure ...
Indecent representation of women
Indecent representation of women, means the depiction in any manner of the figure of a woman, her form or body or any part thereof in such a way as to have the effect of being indecent, or derogatory to, or denigrating, women, or is likely to deprave, corrupt or injure the public morality or morals.[Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 (60 of 1986), s. 2 (c)]...
Indecent advertisement
Indecent advertisement, for the purposes of the (English) Indecent Advertisement Act, 1889, means any advertisement relating to any complaint or debility relating to or arising from sexual inter-course. The Act is directed against the public ex-hibition of such advertisements, and prohibits, inter alia, their display in public urinals and where they can be seen by persons passing along public streets....
indecent assault
indecent assault see assault ...
Indecence
See Indecency...
Indecent
Not decent unfit to be seen or heard offensive to modesty and delicacy as indecent language...
Indecently
In an indecent manner...
Indecent assault
Indecent assault. See (English) Offences against the Person Act, 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100), s. 52, where by such an assult on a female is an indictable offence, punishable by imprisonment with or with-out hard labour up to two years; and s. 62, whereby such an assault on a male is punishable by penal servitude up to ten years, or imprisonment: consent of either girl or boy under sixteen being by the (English) Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 56), no defence....
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