Judges and Judiciary
Aug. 24, 2001
Forbidden 'Pleasure' Book Gets Day in Court
In Catling v. Bowling , King's Bench, Easter Term, 26 George II, 96 E.R. 810; 1 Sayer 80 (1753), Chief Justice Sir William Lee held the following for the court:
Upon a motion for leave to bring a book into court , for the conversion of which an action of Trover was brought, it appeared; that the book, entitled "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure," had been lent by a booksel...
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