indecency
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indecency
noun impropriety, indecorousness, obnoxiousness, tastelessness, unseemingliness, vulgarityAssociated concepts: indecent assault, indecent exposure, indecent liberties, indecent publications, lewd and lasciviius conduct
See also: impropriety, obscenity, pornography, sodomy, vice
INDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R.
91.
2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to
good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of
disclosures does not suffice to exclude them from being given in evidence. 3
Bouv. Inst. n. 3216.
3. The following are examples of indecency: the exposure by a man of
his naked person on a balcony, to public view, or bathing in public; 2
Campb. 89; or the exhibition of bawdy pictures. 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 42; 2 Serg.
& Rawle, 91. This indecency is punishable by indictment. Vide 1 Sid. 168; S.
C. 1 Keb. 620; 2 Yerg. R. 482, 589; 1 Mass. Rep. 8; 2 Chan. Cas. 110; 1
Russ. Cr. 302; 1 Hawk. P. C. c. 5, s. 4; 4 Bl. Com. 65, n.; 1 East, P. C. c.
1, s. 1; Burn's Just. Lewdness.