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lawbook

[ law-book ]

noun

  1. a book consisting or treating of laws, legal issues, or cases that have been adjudicated.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of lawbook1

First recorded in 1150–1200, lawbook is from the Middle English word lagheboc. See law 1, book
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Example Sentences

Erasure of information, Landauer had shown, always requires a minimum amount of energy, putting the second law securely back in the physics lawbook.

Thus the Lawbook of Manu recommends it as the natural weapon of the Brahman against his enemies.

In lawbook as in prophecy, it is the fact of redemption which forms the main ground of His appeal.

In the lawbook of the tsar Wachtang a double composition price was exacted for death by poison.

It was used in the sense of what the present Virginia lawbook calls a "regularly hauled fishing landing."

Now I do not mean that he has a "natural right" to do these things inscribed on any lawbook of Nature.

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