Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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Comstock law

An 1873 federal statute that tightened rules against mailing "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books or pictures, as well as "any article or thing designed for the prevention of conception or procuring of abortions." ( Because of the intolerance that led to this statute, the law gave rise to an English word roughly equivalent to prudery -namely, comstockery.