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Indecent prints or books
The sale, or obtaining, or procuring of such prints, with intent to sell, is a misdemeanor. The (English) Obscene Publications Act, 1857 (20 & 21 Vict. c. 83) ('Lord Campbell's Act'), gives summary powers to metropolitan or
Campbell's (Lord) Acts (English)
v. Imperial Airways Ltd., (1936) 106 LJ KB 49; also (3) 20 & 21 Vict. c. 83 (the Obscene Publications Act, 1857), for preventing the sale of obscene books, etc. See INDECENT PRINTS.
Decency
Decency, in UK the word 'indecent' is used in the sense of obscenity in statutes, relating to obscenity, conveys the Idea of offending against the recognised standards of property, Commentary on
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off color
humorously vulgar mildly obscene risque as an off color joke
Objectionable matter
are grossly indecent are within the definition; words which are scurrilous are within the definition; words which are obscene are within the defintion; and the words which are intended for blackmail are within the definition of 'objectionable
Libel
as are of a blasphemous, treasonable, seditious, or immoral kind. As to the averment in an indictment for obscene libel, see R. v. Barraclough, (1906) 1 KB 201. A libel is a publication of a false and
Expurgation
Expurgation, the act of purging or cleansing, as where a book is published without its obscene passages.
Advertisement
Provisions) Consolidation Provisional Regulations, 13th April, 1934. Persons affixing to walls, etc., any advertisements 'of any indecent or obscene nature' may be summarily proceeded against under the (English) Indecent Advertisements Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c.
Scurrility
The quality or state of being scurrile or scurrilous mean vile or obscene jocularity
Jagannath
when the idol is bathed and the Rathayatra when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this
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