lawbook

[ law-book ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lawbook¹

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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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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