Public-domain · open source
OpenJurist

Indecent Publications

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

Statutes forbidding the keeping, exhibiting, or sale of indecent books or pictures, and providing for their destruction, if seized, are within the police power of a state, and are constitutional. Cooley, Const Lim. 748. See Obscenitt; Mail.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Such as are offensive to modesty and delicacy ; obscene; lewd ; tending to the corruption of morals. Dunlop v. U. 5., 1661 U. S. 486, 17 Sun. Ct. 375. 41 L. Ed. 799; U. S. v. Britton (Com. C.) 17 Fed. 733; People v. Muller, 96 N. Y. 408, 48 Am. Rep. 635.

Defined under Indecency in Black's Law Dictionary.