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indecency

noun impropriety, indecorousness, obnoxiousness, tastelessness, unseemingliness, vulgarity
Associated 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.

References in periodicals archive ?

Steve Close, 53, was serving in the Army when he was convicted of gross indecency in 1983.

Pardon for gays 'not enough'

For radio, indecency tops the list at 16,000+ complaints (14%), followed by pirate radio at nearly 800 complaints (6%).

Consumers Complain About Phones, TV The Most

It depends, before the huge it's indecency but after, it's love," said another user.

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Gwent Police said she had been arrested on suspicion of aiding and abetting the rape of a child under 14, gross indecency with a child under 14, indecency with children and child cruelty.

Pair arrested over historic abuse claims

Eugene police have filed additional charges of indecency against a 23-year-old man whom they arrested earlier this month after he allegedly exposed himself to a number of women in the downtown area over the past seven months.

AROUND THE REGION

The 27-year-old rape victim faced possible indecency charges with her fiance based on thetestimony of the alleged rapists, policemen who say they took the couple by surprise inan "immoral position" just before the alleged attack.

Tunisia prosecutor appeals ruling on raped woman

The two have pleaded guilty to indecency and the case has been adjourned.

Woman uses 'birthmark' defence in Dubai court trial

Wilfred Aldred, of Newhey Road, Woodchurch, Birkenhead, pleaded guilty to three acts of indecency with a child at Liverpool Crown Court yesterday.

MAN, 91, ADMITS INDECENCY

The case has made headline news in Tunisia, the entire region and the world, after it was alleged that two police officers raped her, after being accused of public indecency along with her fiance.

Tunisian's back police-rape victim, as indecency trail begins

WHEN THE Supreme Court agreed to hear a case involving the Federal Communications Commission's ban on broadcast indecency, it had a chance to address fundamental First Amendment questions about government censorship of the airwaves.

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A former policeman has appeared in court on a public indecency charge after he was arrested in a park.

Ex-cop on public indecency in park rap

Today Shah, from Chippenham, Wiltshire, was charged with seven counts of rape of a female under the age of 16, and two counts of gross indecency with a girl under 14, Scotland Yard said.