Obscenity
Related Category: Legal Terms and Concepts
in law, anything that tends to corrupt public morals by its indecency. The moral concepts that the term connotes vary from time to time and from place to place.
Obscenity definition:
A publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive.
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An elusive concept used in the context of criminal law to describe a publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive.
Obscenity v. indecency
Main article: Indecency
The differentiation between indecent and obscene material is a particularly difficult one, and a contentious First Amendment issue that has not fully been settled.
Obscenity law in England and Wales is currently governed by the Obscene Publications Act, but obscenity law goes back much further into the English common law.
Obscenity
An elusive concept used in the context of criminal law to describe a publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive.
OBSCENITY, crim. law. Such indecency as is calculated to promote the violation of the law, and the general corruption of morals.
Obscenity
In the context of criminal law a term used to describe a publication which is illegal because it is morally corruptive.
Pictures, writings, film or public acts which are found to be obscene. However, the courts have had difficulty making a clear non-subjective definition since "one person's obscenity is another person's art".
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