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  • 1Obscene Publications Act 1857 — Parliament of the United Kingdom Statute book chapter 20 21 Vict. c.83 Territorial extent England and Wales, Ireland …

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  • 2obscene — ob·scene /äb sēn/ adj [Middle French, from Latin obscenus obscaenus indecent, lewd]: extremely or deeply offensive according to contemporary community standards of morality or decency see also roth v. united states in the important cases section… …

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  • 3Obscene Stalker: It Holds in Darkness! — Theatrical poster for Obscene Stalker: It Holds in Darkness! (2002) Directed by Yutaka Ikejima[1] …

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  • 4obscene material — n. According to a Supreme Court decision, material is obscene, and hence not protected by the free speech provision of the First Amendment if it has three elements: It must have prurient appeal, as decided by the average person applying the… …

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  • 5Obscene Publications Act 1959 — United Kingdom Parliament …

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  • 6Obscene Publications Acts — Since 1857, a series of obscenity laws known as the Obscene Publications Acts have governed what can be published in England and Wales. The classic definition of criminal obscenity is if it tends to deprave and corrupt, stated in 1868 by John… …

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  • 7Obscene Publications Act — ▪ British law       in British law, either of two codifications of prohibitions against obscene literature adopted in 1857 and in much revised form in 1959. The earlier act, also called Lord Campbell s Act (one of several laws named after chief… …

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  • 8Obscene libel — The publication of an obscene libel was an offence under the common law of England. Prior to the abolition by section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1967 of the distinction between felony and misdemeanour, it was regarded as a misdemeanour.[1] It has… …

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  • 9Obscene phone call — An obscene phone call is an unsolicited telephone call where a person derives sexual pleasure by using sexual or foul language to an unknown person. Making obscene telephone calls for sexual pleasure is known as telephone scatologia and is… …

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  • 10obscene — [[t]ɒbsi͟ːn[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you describe something as obscene, you mean it offends you because it relates to sex or violence in a way that you think is unpleasant and shocking. I m not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene... He …

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